This was an art integrated lesson that was co-taught with the librarian at my school.  In library, the students researched a country of th...

My fifth graders have been working hard on their clay pots in the last few weeks.  To begin, I showed my students this History Detectives...

 I have taught this lesson many times, and my students always love it.  We begin by looking at masks from around the world.  Then students...

I love printmaking lessons, and this year I decided to try styrofoam printing with my 3rd graders. This year I managed to get a hold of f...

 This lesson focused on symmetry.  Students created a symmetrical mask by cutting paper.  I LOVE the detail in these!

 This was a very popular lesson with my fifth graders.  We created Egyptian Pharaoh sarcophaguses after discussing the history and art of ...

These Indian Elephants were inspired from several elephant lessons that I found online.  One was MaryMaking  and the other was, Painted Pap...

This lesson was based on Adinkra Symbols, which are traditional symbols from Ghana.  I began this lesson by showing my students different ...

I've seen this lesson posted on many blogs in the past. Most recently I found it on  MaryMaking . These paintings were done on crumple...

 I found this really cool Sombrero lesson on Flikr , and just had to give it a try.  For this lesson, I had each student draw a large somb...

I've taught this lesson many times in the past, and it is always a favorite with my students. I originally found this lesson on The Inc...

My fifth graders have recently been studying Native American culture in history class, so I thought it was time to create Totem Poles again...

I did this project several months ago, but I forgot to post on it. I did this lesson with my fifth graders because I wanted them to learn t...

Recently, my fourth graders have been reading Chinese stories for their Language Arts class. Therefore, this was a wonderful time to do a C...

I absolutely LOVE this lesson, and NO I can not take credit for this one. I stole it from Painted Paper , which is an awesome blog by the w...

I found this basic idea on Artolazzi . Except instead of focusing on Lascaux, I had my students look at cave paintings from the Anasazi In...

Once again, I have stolen a lesson from another blog. I just don't know what I would do if there wasn't such an awesome community ...

This was my Chinese New Years lesson. Originally, I was going to do this lesson a while ago, but we had a snow day on the real Chinese New...

I was looking through my photos from last year, and I found this project. I had almost forgotten about this lesson, and was quite excitted ...