The author found that transfer art is consistently successful for junior high school students. Describes the process for developing transfer art in step by step detail. (Author/RK)

Describes slab building, a method of working with clay that can become a means for students' personal expressions and comments about the world them. (Author/RK)

In today's budget-conscious schools, a method for introducing students to multiple color block printing from only one block of linoleum or wood would seem to be prudent. This method was successful over a number of years with eighth- and ninth-grade students. (Author/RK)

Describes light art, painting with a flashlight, an exciting new photography medium for students to explore. (Author/RK)

Young artists pay tribute to the spirit of "seventy-six" at the Lincoln Junior High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by creating clay sculptures. (Author/RK)

Students had the opportunity to create a wall decoration for a community resource building using quality materials at no cost to them or their school. (Author/RK)

Describes a project in art technique for elementary teachers who learn the basics of weaving in making sling looms. (RK)

It is great fun trying new ideas and experiments with materials and media in the classroom. Her students work on a project, making faces and figures fit bottles, that challenges their imagination. As well, they also learn a new use for scrap materials. (Author/RK)

An art teacher at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, New York, uses blot paintings as a wedge into the teenager's fantasy world thereby defining nebulous shapes into concrete, but often delightfully outlandish, subject matter. (Author/RK)

Presents an art activity in which the students engrave white lines into black by scratching away the surface of a prepared ink facing to make scratchboard drawings. Discusses the different types of scratchboard, explains how students can make scratchboard themselves, and describes the process of drawing on scratchboard in detail. (CMK)

Presents a printmaking project that enables students to work with lines and shapes by having them create tile designs on Scratch-Foam Board. Explains that the shape of the combined four tiles should be a pinwheel while the design on one corner of each tile should connect forming a design within itself. (CMK)

In a special art class, students combined their excitement about science, ecology and engineering to design and construct a model rocket center. (Author)

Students learned self discovery by developing a tool for a new course in clay. (RK)

Stages in the development of art expression in infants and toddlers are briefly described and illustrated in this paper. Following this overview, suggestions are made about ways to introduce infants and toddlers to various developmentally appropriate media and how to support the artistic efforts of very young children. Materials recommended…

The following description of the etching process and photographs of student work is a culmination of our one-term, third-year printmaking course. (Author)