Materials: Markers

Offering students the possibilities to express their thoughts and concerns, this project outlines a structure to help students make public posters with important messages in a bold and straightforward manner, similar to some of the work Haring did during his lifetime.

Although initially used as an adjunct to a larger scale lesson, this activity provides much potential when used with Keith Haring's book, NINA'S BOOK OF LITTLE THINGS, which allows for interactive visual and conceptual activities.

Using the "Posters with a Message" Lesson as a starting point, this project allows students to exhibit their work publicly and address the related concerns of presentation and observation.

With an emphasis on line, this lesson explores the potential of a collaborative process by conitnually redefining the drawing as a piece of work as well as a process.

An explorative lesson that stimulates language skills while aiding in the development of social and emotional awareness.

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

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.

A lesson that focuses on pattern and design through line and color. The teacher, a fellow Haring fan, used many of the images on our site to inspire her students. The finished products were photographed and made into a book.

A combined dance/visual art week long project, accompanied with live music and ending with a sharing, for students on the autistic spectrum.

Emphasizing collaboration, this teacher brought in music that Keith Haring worked to when he was making art and helped her students create a mural using it as inspiration.

Using the process of paper marbling, this teacher has found a way to help students deconstruct and compose their own abstract compositions.