Subject: Painting

A fun project where kids paint Haring figures on aluminum foil.

This is a one hour class which covers information about the artist, his artistic style, samples of his art, then concludes with the children creating a piece of artwork in the same vein as the artist. This class was prepared for 3rd graders.

Students from this Montessori school in Canada studied Keith Haring and then worked collaboratively to make several murals, custom t-shirts, and sculptures, all exploring the theme of "Peace, love and the environment."

Using traditional portraiture methods of proportion, students explore and combine their knowledge with Haring-style, expressive, and colorful aesthetics to produce vibrant clay masks.

To download facial proportions sheet go to Visual Aids, use link on the right.

Elementary school students from Arkansas create a collaborative, large-scale project inspired by Keith Haring's subway art.

Haring's 2-sided mural on a handball court at 128th Street & 2nd Avenue in NYC overlooks the FDR drive. A public site that has brought much acknowledgement since it was painted in 1986. This lesson, organized collaboratively with The Children's Storefront gives local students the opportunity to examine and reflect on one of Haring's most influential landmarks.

During this lesson the children learned about Keith Haring and what kind of artwork he created. Then they had fun expressing painting an entire car in Haring-inspired imagery!

Sent in by a school in Germany, this class created the perfect Haring-style table settings.

Parent and student volunteers went to Greenfield Elementary School on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday to work together and paint Haring-inspired murals on the walls of the fourteen stairwell landings.

Create Haring-inspired holiday ornaments with children using this fun and easy project sent in to us by a high school in Kansas.

A fun and easy, project that will leave your walls full of color and energy.