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Subject: Drawing
Creating a Cranimal
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"
Lessing meets Haring
This elementary school in Germany partnered up with some college students to create a challenging mural that functions as visual storytelling and encourages graffiti prevention.
Haringkids Italy
Middle-schoolers in Milan, Italy learn about Keith Haring and make their own work inspired by his style.
I Can Dance to the Music of Everything
This children-designed book explores rhyming, musical inventions, rhythm and dance using the process of printmaking.
Tabletop Graffiti Mural
When an art teacher from a YMCA in Florida decided to clean up her shabby tables and teach her students about graffiti art, she decided to combine the projects and revive the tables with art! A strong emphasis on collaboration and cooperation led to a classroom full of personalized furniture.
Figure Cut-Outs
This fun lesson begins with drawing the figure Haring-style. Experimenting with different poses, students design and create large-size cut-out constructions.
Fence Mural
This ambitious teacher created a fence mural with her students in Sarasota, Florida. Each student's figure drawings becoming full-scale figurative paintings on a bright and bold playground fence.
Drawings & Collage
Sent in by the YMCA in Sarasota, FLorida, this lesson explores the use of multiple figures in the medium of collage.
Signs of Everyday Life
Keith Haring was interested in how signs are used in many different cultures, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to contemporary advertising on the city streets. He often signed his artwork with a "radiant baby" sign instead of his name. This lesson seeks to explore the signs around us, and to create our own.
On the Move
To explore students' perceptions of movement and how it can be expressed in images.
Make a visual diary of how you move throughout the day.
Mural to Music 2
Ask your students to make a collaborative mural drawing to music, using their invented sign language, music, using their invented sign language, music logos, imagination, and their responses to the music.