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Signs of Spring Door Hanging

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create their own original design for a spring door decoration. As a class, they follow specific instructions to make the decorate the door piece. They also practice using art supplies and materials correctly and complete a...
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Kiwi Crate

Spring Coloring Pages

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Color these cute kiwis doing activities in the spring! Each page includes a kiwi flying a kite, catching butterflies, holding an ice cream cone, and rowing a boat.
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WATER HERE AND THERE

For Teachers K - 2nd
Introduce the topic of water conservation with a little drama. Dressed as snowflakes, hail stones, or rain drops class members dramatize the events in a narration of the water cycle. The series of lessons that follow focus on...
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Spring into Poetry

For Teachers K - 5th
How many different types of poetry are there? Let me count them; list poems, haiku, and makes-me-think poems are only a few. Learners create their own poems accompanied by artistic projects such as haiku poems written on kites.
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Syncopation and Rhythm in Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Rap Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers recognize and clap the syncopated rhythmic beat of a rap song and identify recurring rhythmic pattern in the excerpt of "Dance of the Adolescents" from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
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Shhh! The Bear Is Hibernating - Printing Practice

For Students Pre-K - K
In this printing practice and coloring worksheet, students see a black line picture of a bear hibernating. They trace the dotted lines to write words in the sentences, "The bear is hibernating. He will awake in spring." They color the...
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Spring Egg

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create a spring egg using a repeating pattern.
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Color by the Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
For this coloring shapes worksheet, students follow a coloring key to color in four different shapes with four different colors in a spring time picture.
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Four Seasons

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Celebrate the changing of the seasons with this collection of arts and crafts activities. 
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Bulletin Board: Eggshell flowers

For Teachers K
Students "paint" Spring flowers by gluing pieces of dyed, hardboiled eggshells onto outlines of flowers. They display their artwork on a Spring-themed bulletin board.
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Flower Color Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a walk through the garden with a cute activity about color words. Eight cards show smiling flowers in different colors, along with their color names, inviting young learners to identify them.
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Brussel Sprout Bunny

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create miniature "brussel sprout" bunnies using clay pots, brussel sprouts, mini poms, Easter grass, and fake silk flowers. This lesson is intended for the upper-elementary classroom during the Spring season (March or earl April...
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Music and Emotion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the various emotions created by different types of music. They Identify role of music in creating various emotions for film and television . They observe and practice various ways of playing percussion instruments. They...
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Lesson 5: The Journey Becomes Larger Than Life!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Many muralists throughout history have focused on using their art to represent aspects of their culture or community. After thoroughly researching several muralists, budding artists will create a larger than life mural that contains...
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Tissue Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Let's make colors! Your class will participate in a creative art project that introduces them to the concept of color blending and allows them to discover color combinations through exploration, trail, and error. First, the teacher will...
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Defining the Images of African American Slavery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view and analyze various artists' representations of slavery. They create their own illustrations of slavery.
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Review of Compound and Complex Sentences

For Students 3rd - 5th
An excellent language arts worksheet. Learners read seven sentences and determine if each is simple, compound, or complex. In order to practice sentence combining, young writers join 10 sets of sentences to form compound sentences, and...
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Positive/Negative Shapes, Shamrocks And Matisse

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students create Shamrock mobiles or art pieces using positive and negative shapes, card stock, glue, and the techniques used by Henri Matisse. The lesson plan includes many resource links and is a great project for St. Patrick's Day.
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Farm Animals

For Students K - 2nd
In this artistic related worksheet, students cut out nine pictures of farm animals and then match the animals that belong together.
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Flower Petals

For Students K - 3rd
For this artistic related worksheet, students draw as many petals as each heart request in the circles on the flowers indicated.
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Egg Hunt Reinforces Math, Language Skills

For Teachers K - 8th
It's amazing what you can do to reinforce math skills while leading an egg hunt! Learners of all ages will benefit from playing this simple game.
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Weather Cut and Paste

For Students K - 1st
A charming learning exercise for your young artists, they color and cut out four pictures of different types of weather and then paste them next to a picture of a child who is dressed for that type of weather. This learning exercise...
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Van Gogh's Starry Night

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create representations of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" using the main artistic elements of color, line, balance, movement, and space. The class is then asked to discuss the creative process.
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Easter Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Whether you focus on the real meaning of Easter, or on the fun stuff, like egg dyeing, here are some great lessons.