Curriculum: Art

This lesson focuses on helping kids help themselves and other kids by painting with a message in the style of Keith Haring. It empowers them and teaches that their art can be a source of hope and information for others.

A teacher's account of her "Nutcracker Mural" done in the style of Keith Haring's characters in a local storefront window.

Students from Florida create a public mural of figures participating in an Olympic sports, in the style of Keith Haring.

A low-budget, exciting way to explore the function and creative process of public art while gaining a deeper understanding of Haring's work.

A wonderful lesson sent in by a school in England that helps students examine and discuss art while developing their own fun and silly essays.

Using Keith Haring's book, TEN as a starting point, children will learn to quantify and visually depict numbers.

Using Keith Haring's book, BIG, Children will write and illustrate all the words they know for the word small.

This collaborative project, inspired by a set of prints Haring made titled, RED AND BLUE, asks children to interpret classmates' abstract shapes and write or tell a story about them.

Usually lessons take a class through a project, this lesson takes a class through reflection and display, a great complement to any activity.

This lesson, similar to our Flip-Book lesson, is designed for children to explore movements and perform them as the different characters in Haring's work, emphasizing transitional poses and personal expression.

This lesson, similar to our Morphs lesson, is designed for children to examine the visual quality of movement in Haring's work, emphasizing sequence and time.

Along with defining Keith's goals and strategies for his life as an artist, children will consider their own aspirations and strategies necessary to attain their goals.