Skill Level: 2-5 Time Frame: 30 minutes Goals To learn about warm and cool colors. To learn how to use and blend oil pastels. To learn basic weaving techniques by using a simple material—paper. Materials Colored Cardstock or Construction Paper Ruler Pencil Scissors Transfer Paper Painters Tape X-acto knife (teachers only) Steps Talk about warm [...]

Skill Level: 1-5 Time Frame: 30 minutes Goals To practice scissor skills. To use materials that may otherwise be thrown away or recycled to create an original work of art. To talk about collage and to use a simple collage technique. Materials Black Paper 9X12 Paper Scraps, variety of colors and/or patterns Scissors Glue Stick [...]

Level: 2-5 Time: 30+ minutes Goals: To introduce warm and cool colors. To show how warm colors project and cool colors recede. Materials: White Cardstock/Drawing Paper Black Sharpie Pencil Warm and Cool Markers/Sharpies Directions: Draw large-scale, freeform designs with black sharpie on the white cardstock (I would discourage drawing in pencil first, as it is [...]

Level: 2-5 Time: 45+ minutes Goals: To introduce primary and secondary colors. To demonstrate the basics of color mixing. Definitions: Primary Colors: the group of colors (red, yellow, blue) from which all other colors can be made by mixing. Secondary Colors: Colors (orange, green, purple) produced by mixing two primary colors. Materials: Wax Paper Masking [...]

Skill Level: 1 and up Time Frame: 15 min and up Goals To create a kinetic puppet and use imagination while acting out scenes with the puppets. To use fine motor skills while cutting, gluing and piecing the puppet on the clothespin. Materials White cardstock Markers Scissors Hot glue Wooden clothes pins Wire (optional) Directions: [...]