| Crayon Rubbing Flip Book |
Kellie Rilla, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
THIS LESSON USES THE NYC BLUEPRINT LEARNING STANDARDS.
This flip book lesson is designed to make learning about animation a more tactile, fun experience for young learners by eliminating tracing and bringing the line to life. Students will use their hands to gradually bend and reshape a line (floral wire), while recording this experience using crayon rubbings. The sequential crayon rubbings will become frames for their flip book.
This lesson is originally designed to accompany a math lesson about closed shapes, giving students an experience with the formation of flat sides, curves, and angles. |
| Creating Stories |
Catherine Lapping |
Looking and drawing merge in this lesson to help students understand and appreciate Keith Haring's work. As an extension to this project, these NYC school children decorated bags containing holiday gifts for local charities. |
| Creating a Cranimal |
Marie Antonelli, Keith Haring/SVA Scholarship Recipient |
THIS LESSON USES THE NYC BLUEPRINT LEARNING STANDARDS.
Elementary students design their own mix and matched animals, using a lesson framework that emphasizes transformation.
This lesson accompanies the following additional lessons:
"Clay for Fun"
"Cranimals in 3D"
"Paper Sculpture Habitats" |
| Creating a Personal Symbol |
Barbara Tapley-Kenney |
After studying the work of Keith Haring, these high school students created their own personal symbols on woodblocks. The symbols were then printed on to an item of clothing and incorporated into a banner. |
| Cut-Out Figures |
Erin Norton & Linda Babich |
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. |
| Dancing Silhouettes |
Monique Ducroux |
After a dance lesson about statues, these youngsters looked at Keith Haring pictures and drew their own silhouettes on the asphalt outside their school. |
| Decoding Haring's Symbols |
Howard Michaels |
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. |
| Designing Objects |
The Katonah Museum of Art |
Using a project framework similar to that of Keith Haring's, children can explore the possibilities of designing a personally customized watch, bicycle, and car, using the templates provided. |
| Designing a Bus Stop |
Martin Richerzhagen |
This lesson, sent in by an 8th grade class took their art outside, and painted bus shelters throughout the city of Zell in Germany. One is inspired by our favorite artist, Keith Haring. |
| Drawing Movement |
Jeri Turtle |
This local New York City school used Keith Haring's art to inspire a lesson on expressing movement in drawing. |
