Learn the best practices for appreciating cultural differences, understanding and interacting with others
Project Title: Postcard Paintings Description: Students will brainstorm a place they’d like to visit or enjoyed visiting. They will sketch the place or different things that represent the place onto watercolor paper and paint it in. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 7+ Historical Art Examples or References: Postcards from around …
Project Title: Dia de los Muertos Masks (Day of the Dead Masks) Description: Students use their knowledge of patterns to create their own Day of the Dead inspired mask. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: K-2 Historical Art Examples or References: Images of sugar skulls, Mexican masks, and Day of the Dead …
Project Title: Mexican Desert Collage Description: Students will create a desert-inspired collage during the daytime or nighttime. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 5+ Historical Art Examples or References: Discussion of deserts, Mexico, desert landscapes, Mexican artists such as Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera Vocabulary: collage, desert, overlap, blend, …
Lesson To have students show the bringing together of loved ones accomplished by bridging the gap between them. Recommended Ages Preschool to elementary Background Qixi is a Chinese story about the cowherd and the weaver girl in Chinese mythology. Their love was forbidden so they were banished to opposite sides …
Project Title: Pine Cone Turkeys Description: Making pine cone turkeys for thanksgiving Author: Krisitin Grade level or Target Age Range: preschool Vocabulary: Turkey, pine cone, holiday, sharing Materials: pine cone, feathers, orange construction paper cut into little squares, orange construction paper cut into feet, black construction paper, googley eyes, glue Anticipatory …
In art classes at Northern Liberties Recreation Center, students learned their Chinese Calendar animal using their birth year. They made layered crayon rubbings of all the different textures they could find in the classroom to decorate the bodies of their snakes with scales and patterns. Using tape, they made the heads of …
In art classes at Northern Liberties Recreation Center, students learned the Chinese Calendar animal associated with their birth year while gaining an appreciation for Chinese-American culture. They also heard about the nearly 15 days of celebration events that take place in Chinatown during every Chinese New Year! Vocabulary: Stylized, symbolic color, ink, uniform …
Let’s Have a Luau! Project Title: Hawaiian themed art projects Description: leis and parrot puppets Author: Mary Hager Grade level or Target Age Range: Preschool Vocabulary: lei, luau, Hawaii, hula Materials: For leis: string, cutouts of paper flowers with holes in the middle and small cut pieces of plastic straws. …
