Four art educators at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, developed and taught a cross-disciplinary program in Design Education for high school students. (Author/RK)

Teacher discusses how string pictures can stimulate a student's creative imagination and perception. (GB)

Article describes a valuable new way for children to use sand in relation to other natural materials in a different context and scale than the usual sandbox play. (Author/RK)

Urges need to create public school art programs to provide cultural enrichment for students. (DS)

Ideas for spring arts activities include a whimsical play about royal dragons, a skit on an April fool, and a song. Instructions for making brightly colored birds from boxes, a happy day hat, decorated eggs, and other art projects are given. (PP)

Described are three craft stations (claywork, papermaking, and stamp designing) for intermediate grade students, to correlate with their classroom study which focused on Ohio: its history, geography, cities, industries, products and famous natives. (KC)

Provides steps for making papier-mache birds, the final activity in a fifth and sixth grade class study project. (RL)

Materials designed for teachers and handicapped children in the least restrictive settings are reviewed. Brief descriptions are given for materials on science instruction; arts and humanism; expressive arts; social studies units incorporating dance, music, and the visual arts; and functional and basic skills. (CL)

Suggests a variety of alternative fashion illustration techniques and materials which do not require rigorous training in sketching the human figure. (SJL)

Twenty-two pages of holiday gems for you and your kids, featuring traditions, giving the natural way, singing under the mistletoe, paper crafts, choral reading, an international bazaar, poetry and puzzles, a seasonal bibliography, projects with plastic, a couple of stories, gifts from the teacher, and gifts for your colleagues. (Editor)

A week-by-week readiness program for preschool and early primary children. (Editor)

Describes an art project that taught students about the work of two different artists: (1) Edgar Degas; and (2) Alexander Calder. Explains that students created drawings of ballerinas, created sculptures in the style of Calder, and created sculptures of ballerinas. (CMK)