Monthly Archives: June 2022
HubPages CRAFTS GALLERY
I’ve mentioned before that I write articles on HubPages, and at times make and include tutorials for crafts. Since some of these crafts would make great classroom art projects, I’ve set up a gallery for them. If you haven’t made … Continue reading
NATIVE AMERICAN MASK
The Native American used masks as part of their religious ceremonies, as part of ceremonial costumes, for entertainment or for medicinal purposes. The masks were often made to represent the spirits of animals, and the Pacific Northwest Indians believed that … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd Grade, 4th grade, american indian, art, ceremonial, ceremonial mask, crafts, for kids, mask, masks, native american, pacific northwest indians, projects
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DANCING FIREFLIES
Have you ever admired dancing fireflies on a dark summer night? You can almost hear the music as they swoop and circle carrying their little sparkling lanterns. While some of the blinking lights seem to stand still, others wildly dart … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st grade, art class, art project, bug, craft, dance of the firefly, dancing fireflies, flashing little lanterns, for kids, summer
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SUPER, SPECTACULAR SUPERMOON
If you haven’t yet seen a supermoon, you’ve missed out on a super, spectacular sight. An astrologer, Richard Nolle, named the supermoon over 30 years ago, but it’s been only the last few years that this name for perigee has … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th Grade, art, coffee filter, craft, for kids, full moon, moon and trees, project, supermoon, supermoon art project
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ABORIGINAL DOT ART JARS
Australian Aboriginal dot art styles range from exceedingly neat work to overlapping, unstructured works. The sizes of dots range from tiny dots randomly applied in an area to give a stippled effect to dots placed so close together that they … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th grade, aboriginal art, aboriginal dot art, art class, art project, australian, dot art, dot art on jars, dot art project, for kids, jar art
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MATTISE
How do you suppose the Goldfish painting of Henri Matisse would look if he were painting it in the year 2014? Goldfish were a new craze in Europe in Henri Matisses’ time, and they became kind of an obsession with … Continue reading
NATIVE AMERICAN SHIELD
Although the Native American war shield and the medicine shield looked similar, they had distinctively different uses. The war shield was thicker and heavier and was used to deflect arrows or spears. The medicine shield was also taken along in … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd Grade, american indian, brown paper bag, Indian, medicine shield, native american, paper plate, project, third grade, war shield
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PARTY LINE GOSSIP
Have you ever noticed a flock of birds sitting on a telephone wire and wondered what their conversation was about? I imagine from that height they get a pretty good view of what’s going on in the neighborhood. Actually, when … Continue reading
