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- Greeting Card Picture - This is a fun activity to do with students around the holidays or at the end of the year.
- The Body Picture - This art activity has students working in teams of three to measure and cut paper, yarn, or ribbon into different lengths.
- Contour Line Drawings - Drawing an object while looking at it helps artists draw what they really see. It is a good technique for beginners and advanced artists.
- Creating Packing Tape Casts - In this activity students use packing tape to create casts of objects. They apply several layers of tape around an object.
- Creating Tearing Pictures - This lesson is a good one to use in the beginning of the year when students are still learning how to use scissors.
- Cubomania - Cubomania is a technique used in surrealist art. It involves taking a photograph, cutting it up, and reassembling it in a new way.
- Frottage - Textured rubbings are fun to do, but often they are left as just that. In this lesson, students are challenged to incorporate those textures into their pictures.
- Modelling Faces- Students will learn how to handle sugarpaste and how it reacts to the elements (air, moisture, etc.).
- Morphing Objects by Hand - This lesson has students changing an object into another object just by changing one feature at a time.
- Mosaics - Students can create a picture using many small parts. This lesson can be tied into many subjects and themes across the curriculum.
- Musical Strokes - In this assignment, students listen to different types of music and paint the emotions they hear.
- Painting with Bubble Wrap and other great objects - This is an introductory lesson into texture. Students are able to paint a variety of objects and transfer the pattern to a piece of paper.
- Parsemage - Parsemage involves creating pictures by laying chalk dust or charcoal in water and then putting paper under it and lifting the paper up.
- Positive and Negative Space - Students will create pictures using white and black construction paper to illustrate the use of positive and negative space in art.
- Printmaking - Student gains an understanding of the functions and purposes of printmaking in history and contemporary society.
- Puzzle Pictures - This activity is a fun way for students to explore patterns and design. Students can also use it practice using contrasting or complimenting colors, warm or cool ones, or primary and secondary ones.
- Scratchboard Pictures - Students create pictures out of scratchboard in this lesson. The animals or objects they can choose are limitless, but the greater the detail, the more the picture will stand out.
- Shape Collage - The student will be able to create a collage using paper, at least three different sizes of the same shape, and a variety of colors of paint.
- Sharpie Shirts - Students observe the idea of disbursement during this lesson. Traditional tye-dye ink is exchanged for the Sharpie marker in this fun t-shirt activity.
- Silhouette Drawings - The students will have an opportunity to look at the shape of the head and practice outlining it.
- Understanding Perspective - Visualize and develop pictorial ideas through the drawing process Demonstrate the ability to use the perspective grid in defining proportion for multiple objects in a given space.