A brief overview of elements, principles, and other terms
Paper-bag puppets and masks
Printmaking with styrofoam plates
Magazine rainbow/color wheel
Food-colored-string pulling
What if you illustrated this story?
Still life/portrait/landscape/genre
Drawing with black crayon
Paper weaving with magazine pictures or newspaper
Interpret values with newspaper
Using line to create the illusion of form
Distortion with drawings, magazine pictures, or printouts
Homemade play-doh or self-hardening clay
Building people and cartoon characters from magazine photos
Write a poem, song, play, or story
Which is your favorite? why?
How would you arrange your museum?
Look for different forms or shapes
Drawing on photos for perspective
Urban elements and principles
Find your favorite structure
How would you draw these noises? smells?
Reduce scenes to shapes and lines
Write a poem, song, play, or story
Match using only red, yellow, and blue
How would you interpret smells, sounds, and feelings?
Snow creatures and sand castles