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MacRae, Christina – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
This article reflects on the significance of a series of encounters with a baby doll in an early years' classroom during an artist residency. The article takes an event when a small group of children encounter a baby doll as its starting point. By connecting this shared lived moment with Deleuze and Guattari's idea of machinic production and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toys, Infants, Play
Uyanik, Ozgun; Inal, Gozde; Calisandemir, Fatma; Can-Yasar, Munevver; Kandir, Adalet – Online Submission, 2011
Creativity is innately brought with secret power which can emerge at any time throughout life and be enhanced if fostered. Properly designed art activities serve as a potential for emergence and the enhancement of children's creativities in their early childhood educations. Those children who cannot express their emotions through oral language or…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Art Activities, Media Selection, Foreign Countries
Sterling, Joan – Arts & Activities, 2009
This article presents a lesson that uses stitching and applique techniques to create a fiber collage in which every child is successful with high-quality work. This lesson was inspired by Tomie dePaola's "The Legend of the Bluebonnet." The back cover had a lovely illustration of the bluebonnet flower the author thought would translate easily to a…
Descriptors: Art Products, Art Materials, Art Activities, Studio Art
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
In school, the author sat next to Sandor the sculptor--when he was still undiscovered. He could take a pencil and, while seemingly listening in class, completely reshape the pencil by biting it. To detail his best pieces, Sandor would highlight the dents and gnashes with colored pens. Little did Sandor realize that his early efforts would be an…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Activities, Art Materials, Childrens Art
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Rudecki, Maryanna – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
This article describes a lesson inspired by Sicilian mosaics. The author first presented a PowerPoint presentation of mosaics from the Villa Romana del Casale and reviewed complementary and analogous colors. Students then created mosaics using a variety of art materials. They presented their work to their peers and discussed the thought and…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Color, Horses, Studio Art
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Boss, Susan – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
Beverage take-out trays are funky in their form and function. In this article, the author describes how to make googly eye masks out of discarded take-out trays and other common recycled or discarded materials. (Contains 1 online resource.)
Descriptors: Recycling, Art Materials, Art Activities, Studio Art
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Song, Young Imm Kang – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2010
This paper focuses on how the arts heighten cognitive experiences through the use of natural materials and sites and the engagement with the natural world. The arts expose viewers to new ways of seeing, feeling, and thinking about nature; this can lead to greater awareness of and motivation to act on behalf of nature. The author examines the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Physical Environment, Artists
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Genshaft, Carole Miller – Art Education, 2009
For more than 60 years, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson has created art that documents her own experiences and the stories handed down to her from her family. She captures the character of the neighborhoods where she has lived and the places she has visited, and she chronicles the accounts of people and events that have changed the course of history.…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Artists, Art Materials, Art
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Vick, Randy M.; Sexton-Radek, Kathy – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
This research project extends a previous study (Vick & Sexton-Radek, 1999) in examining the relationship between artmaking and pain among 127 migraine sufferers. A basic overview of migraine symptoms and treatment is presented along with a discussion of concepts relating to "migraine art" in order to provide a context for this project. Surveys…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Materials, Pain, Correlation
Hamidou, Kristine – Arts & Activities, 2009
An abstract art project can be challenging or not, depending on the objectives the teacher sets up. In this article, the author describes an abstract papier-mache project that is a success for all students, and is a versatile project easily manipulated to suit the classroom of any art teacher.
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Sculpture, Art Materials
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Pierce, Brian – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
It seems like everybody's "going green" these days. People do what they can to save the environment. Their cars are greener, their buildings are greener, even their clothes are greener. But what about going "brown"? It's cheap, it's readily available, and it has endless uses--especially in art. It's cardboard. The author describes a project that…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Design Crafts, Art Activities, High School Students
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White, Heather – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
This article describes an activity that combines a cute story about bugs and insects and a project that includes working with clay. The lesson begins by reading a story on insects. The author uses a chart or library book that illustrates insect body parts to discuss the attributes of the insect. Students then identify parts, examine the eyes, and…
Descriptors: Entomology, Art Activities, Studio Art, Childrens Literature
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2009
The best lesson ideas often derive from childhood recollections. When brought to class, play memories and art mementos from the teacher's childhood paint a powerful homage to children's art. A survey of a child's room in the dark, or with lights on, discloses interesting hanging sites, means of attachment and unusual items drafted for hanging, all…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Artists, Art Products
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Stevens, Lori – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
Ed Ruscha's exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco presented a fantastic and challenging teaching approach not just to art creation, but also to the whole definition of art. Ruscha painted with pastels and drew with pencils, but he also made art using Pepto Bismol, carrots, and spinach. In this article, the author describes an art…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Materials, High School Students, Art Activities
Ciminero, Sandra Elser – Arts & Activities, 2011
The purpose of the "Identity Pole" was to explore the big idea of identity. Students would confront issues of personal and cultural meaning, and draw upon interdisciplinary connections for inspiration. The author chose to present totem poles of the Northwest Coast Native Americans/First Nations of Canada, as well as school, state and national…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Self Concept, Art Products
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