Making wonderful flowers with Michele Rivera. Canadian artist Theodore Dragonieri paints, collages and reconstructs old shoes to represent great artists of the 20th century. Navajo Indians created sand paintings as a way of chasing away evil spirits. Create a firework display with crayons and paint. From B. Church.
Seashells make wonderful palm-size canvases for seascape paintings.
A great lesson on color, color mixing and abstract art from Judith Walsh. Finding fun with materials under the kitchen sink. An outdoor, warm weather activity that teaches young children about colour mixing. Expressionistic sunflowers in oil, acrylic or pencil crayon. Students will learn to look at the different ways of laying out a painting.