Age/Grade: Elementary 1

K-1st Grade
5-7 Years

Drawing Movement

This local New York City school used Keith Haring's art to inspire a lesson on expressing movement in drawing.

Pop Art People

A lesson especially designed for younger children to help them understand body proportion and construction.

Heart Collage

A simple lesson designed for younger students. Perfect for Valentines or Mothers Day.

Add a Page to Love

Using Keith Haring's book, LOVE, as a stepping stone, students are asked to create their own page to express love while challenging their use of color.

Hip Hop Dance Cut-Outs

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.

Marbling a la Haring

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

Cut-Out Figures

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.

Clay Alphabet Sculpture Scenes

Clay Alphabet Sculpture Scenes

A fun and informative introduction to the art of Keith Haring and an opportunity for students to sculpt their own clay letters!

Haring Mural

Illinois 3rd Graders learned about Keith Haring and then created a mural together, with Haring as our inspiration.

Haring In Motion Magnets

Students paint a Haring portrait in motion and then transfer the image onto a shrink film magnet.

Chalk Drawings

Chalk Drawings

Students from an elementary school in Tampa, Florida visited an exhibition of Keith Haring's work at the local Tampa Museum of Art and then made their own Haring-inspired work!