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Young, Carol – Arts & Activities, 2001
Presents a project in which students used the modeling compound called Sculpey to create miniature creatures called "wee folk". States that the project students were required to learn two new techniques: (1) working in stages; and (2) using round wooden toothpicks as primary tools. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art, Educational Strategies
Steinkamp, Mary J. – Arts & Activities, 2001
Describes an art project where students used excelsior, shredded wood used for packing, to create animals. Explains that excelsior can be found at furniture and grocery stores. Discusses in detail the process of making the animals and includes learning objectives. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art
Evensen, Helen – Arts & Activities, 1998
Describes a second-grade art activity called "The Name Game" in which the students create letter people around the letters of their names. Helps teachers and students get acquainted at the beginning of a new year. Explains that students review old art concepts while simultaneously learning new ones. Provides directions, diagrams, and specifies…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art, Grade 2
Harrington, Carolyn Lang – Arts & Activities, 1998
Describes a lesson for third-grade students that begins with an examination of bird prints done by John James Audubon and moves into the students creating their own torn paper birds. Introduces the students to the beauty of birds and focuses on the environmental issues that face birds and their habitats. (CMK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
Wilson, Linda Karch – Arts & Activities, 1998
Believes that curriculum integration is the key to successful teaching for the future. Describes an Action Research Project where four teachers made connections across the disciplines of science, music, and art as part of a grant project called "Connecting the Curriculum." Summarizes the art project in which the students created flip…
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Art Materials, Childrens Art
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Warash, Bobbie Gibson; Saab, Joy Faini – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1999
Describes a project designed to enhance the development of preschool children's aesthetic awareness. Explores how the project presented strategies and materials that can be readily incorporated into the curriculum for any group of young children. Strategies included focusing children's observations; making art happen; and expanding artistic…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
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Strasser, Janis Koeppel – Childhood Education, 2001
Describes the "Beautiful Me!" kindergarten unit, which uses children's literature to help children develop a rich vocabulary to describe themselves, their friends, and family, and to avoid words placing people into categories and stereotypes. Activities include providing various skin-tone crayons for drawing and using craft materials to depict…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Art, Childrens Literature, Class Activities
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2000
Explores children's fascination with creating their own unique games as an art form. Focuses on different games, such as chess, checkers, pogs, and monopoly. States that observing children playing games offers a firsthand lesson in how children create. Discusses what it means to be an art teacher who promotes creative play with games. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Products, Art Teachers
Cassidy, Joan – Arts & Activities, 2001
Describes an activity for first-grade students in which they learn about cave paintings and become spelunkers, or people who explore caves as a hobby, making their own paper head-lanterns. Explains that students draw animals on the walls of their "cave" (a dark hallway lined with brown kraft paper). (CMK)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Animals, Art, Art Education
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2000
Focuses on the importance of stickers in the creative life of children. Explores children's use of stickers as decorations in bedrooms, on school supplies, on clothes, and on bodies. Discusses "sticker surveys" that lead to talk about stickers and art. Explores the use of stickers in an art class. (CMK)
Descriptors: Adhesives, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Materials
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2000
Describes a two-part art activity in which second-grade students first create self-portrait puppets of themselves as band members and then create another portrait puppet in the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso. Explains that the activity enables students to compare realistic and abstract styles. Includes learning objectives. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Artists, Bands (Music)
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Mayer, Veronica – Art Education, 2005
Ruth Faison Shaw was an art educator who developed a nontraditional educational perspective of teaching and a different vision about children's art. As such, she is considered by some to be the initiator of finger-painting in America (The History of Art Education Timeline 1930-1939, 2002.) Shaw developed the technique of finger-painting and a…
Descriptors: Painting (Visual Arts), Art Education, Art Teachers, Childrens Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2003
Discusses how experiences with water provide children with opportunities to be artists. Describes different types of water play for children. Believes that experiences with water introduce children to the principles of painting. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Products, Childrens Art, Educational Strategies
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Cugmas, Zlatka – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
In the theoretical part of this paper, the author gives answers to the question of whether a real attachment relationship can exist between a child and a non-maternal caretaker. She introduces diagnostic meaning of children's drawings. The purpose of the study was to investigate how children's social behavior and their attachment to the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
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Picard, Delphine; Vinter, Annie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
We investigated the nature of graphic formulas in 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old children when they were asked to draw a house and a television in a free condition, and then to draw from photographs of these objects. Assuming that the frequency of occurrence of a feature in children's drawings reflects its semantic weight, we studied the relations between…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Semantics, Geometric Concepts
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