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This art lesson plan is designed for elementary school teachers and contains grade level-appropriate content, objectives, activities and exercises for grades K-5. The guide accompanies the two-part DVD or VHS program, Rainy Day Art Projects for Young People, Volumes 1 & 2 for ages 6-12, which is an integral part of the art lesson plans.
Welcome to Rainy Day Art Projects! Teachers, are you ready to have as much creative fun as your students? You'll find it in
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these 10 art lesson plans -- easy crafts for kids and activities formulated for pure, creative fun and learning!
Are you looking for a resource to provide young people with the opportunity to express themselves, while at the same time providing enriching cultural, historical and intellectual opportunities? We hope so, because that's exactly what these art lesson plans provide -- easy crafts for kids, which are thoughtfully integrated with explorations in math, language studies, science and social studies. Thoroughly entertaining education!
What sets Rainy Day Art Projects apart from similar programs? Our attitude for one thing. You'll see it shine through in the program -- real teachers, inspiring projects, and kids loving the results! Our Rainy Day guides, Vanessa Churco, Teri Grant, Melissa Hulsey and Dawn Pontillas have tested the presented activities out in the classroom, proved their effectiveness, and then put their knowledge and experience on VHS and DVD to share with you and your students.
For another thing, Rainy Day Art Lesson Plans are super-easy to use! All projects are created using ordinary craft supplies. This means minimum preparation time and minimum start-up frustration for both you and your students, so they can dive right into fun learning projects! Young people are naturally excited about working with crafts, so the motivation is built-in. Your toughest task will be ending the classes -- we guarantee the children won't want to stop once they get started!
And finally, our guide offers a wide variety of scholastic explorations, each one thoughtfully developed around an artistic theme. Have fun expanding your class' horizons with these high-level excursions!
- Explore the history of chocolate and its discovery by Mayan Indians, then make Aztec hot chocolate with your students!
- Delve into the Impressionist period of painting, and learn about pointillism.
- Go back in time to the American Revolution, and examine the evolution of Fourth of July celebrations.
- Help budding gardeners grow real flowers while creating beautiful botanical craft projects!
- Lead your students in exciting activities about solar energy and photosynthesis.
- Discover how American Indians used petroglyphs and hieroglyphs to tell stories!
At Five Star Educational, we've been disappointed in the diminishing role of the arts in education. We created the Rainy Day Projects videos and guide as part of our contribution to the remedy. With that goal in mind, we set out to produce a thoughtfully integrated package that would combine easy crafts for kids with unique, entertaining and valuable learning experiences. Our top four priorities were to allow young people to:
- Express their creativity with a wide variety of projects
- Explore social, cultural, historical and intellectual concepts through their relation to crafts
- Create masterpieces that are whimsical, decorative, beautiful and functional
- Just have fun!
Learn about the author of this guide, Beth Malone.
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