Materials: Pencils

Sent to us by one of our most active teachers, this project demonstrates the explorative fun that students can have with Keith Haring inspired imagery.

Pupils make paintings on big wooden panels that are placed on the sidewalk.

High School students in the YMCA Teen Action Program at Washington Irving collaborated with Live Out Loud and professional artists, to celebrate the end of their PRIDE week by using art to express their ideas.

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.

Small groups of students danced to music in the hallway, while tracing their bodies in movement poses on colored paper. They were cut out, glued onto one large sheet of paper, and outlined in black paint to brighten up our school hallway.

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.

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 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.