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Duration: 3 - 4 Classes
Mural Making in the Style Of Keith Haring
My 5th graders discussed what topics they considered important enough to provide a lasting legacy at their elementary school before heading off to middle school.
Several ideas were brainstormed and voted on. They decided that they wanted to showcase "sports and fitness" while showing haring style figures in motion.
Graffiti Art
Students learn about Keith Haring and graffiti art then they make their own work on a vinyl tarp inspired by his style.
Stone Figurines
Sent in by a school in Germany, this class created the perfect Haring-style table settings.
Take Colour to the Street
Pupils make paintings on big wooden panels that are placed on the sidewalk.
Painting with a Message
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.
Haring Cooperative Quilt
Students work together to make a quilt inspired by the life and vision of Keith Haring.
Decoding Haring’s Symbols
A lesson in yarn painting sent in by a teacher from New Jersey. Support tools such as the video, "Drawing the Line: a Portrait of Keith Haring" were used and discussed.
Cut-Out Figures
Combining the standard early-childhood project of full size traced self-portraits and the work of Keith Haring, this lesson adds a refreshing variation to an old classic.
Haring Man Mural
One class' response to Haring's work after visiting our site, a full size figurative mural. The perfect project to build upon for individual children or a whole group.
Fine Art to Animation with Keith Haring
These 5th Graders studied Keith Haring and the significance of his life and art on our world. After exploring elements of line and color through drawing; they then created their own morphes in the computer lab using VSE's Animation Maker.
I Can Dance to the Music of Everything
This children-designed book explores rhyming, musical inventions, rhythm and dance using the process of printmaking.
Figure Cut-Outs
This fun lesson begins with drawing the figure Haring-style. Experimenting with different poses, students design and create large-size cut-out constructions.