Art & Artists Through the Centuries

Students gain an appreciation for fine art by analyzing the distinct techniques used by more than 20 artists throughout history. Follow-up projects help students imitate those techniques. Included are biographies, vocabulary lists, and assessment guidelines.

Teaching Art and Music Through Nursery Rhymes

Use traditional nursery rhymes as springboards for standards-based lessons. Watch students learn art and music...and enjoy every minute of it!

Art in Motion

What happens when you mix fine arts with physical education? The results include fun, a foundation for art appreciation, body awareness, and improved motor skills. Bonus sections include a parent handbook and lists of sources for supplies.

Creative Kids: Creative Crafts for Clever Kids

Inspire creativity with 90 hands-on activities that have easy-to-follow directions.

Creative Crafts for Clever Kids features the following activities:

• Paper Productions: Create fantastic paper products like a rocking horse, newspaper fan, and building logs.
• Kitchen Capers: Craft everyday food items into potato hedgehogs, apple votive candles, or pasta butterflies.
• Natural Necessities: Design dandelion jewelry, mud building bricks, or nature masks.
• Claydough Creations: Learn the best recipes for modeling everything from birthday candle holders to potted plant people.
• Fabric Finery: Convert fabric, ribbon, felt, and yarn into everything from dolls to indoor tennis rackets.
• Hardware Handiwork: Turn old nuts, bolts, washers, cans, and cup hooks into wind chimes and sculptures.
• Trash Treasures: Create new items from cans, milk jugs, and egg cartons.

Creative Kids: Preschool Arts & Crafts

The activities in Preschool Arts & Crafts provide a wealth of enriching, hands-on experiences for preschool children. The original poems, easy-to-follow directions, at-a-glance list of materials, and additional suggestions for each activity promise many happy hours of creative activity.

Preschool Arts & Crafts features the following:

• Information on how to get started, what to expect from the activities and the preschooler, and the importance of poetry in the preschool experience.
• A complete guide to preparing and using the "Kid Kits" and unit activities.
• Creative ways to display the child's art.
• Safety guidelines.
• Arts and crafts units that include activities for drawing, cutting, pasting, and painting, as well as kitchen, birthday, outdoor, and seasonal arts and crafts.
• A complete list of materials needed for each unit activity.
• Over 60 arts and crafts activities, each with its own delightful poem.

Masterpiece of the Month

Students learn about artistic concepts by looking at great works of art. Follow-up art activities using crayons, chalk, tempera paint, and more reinforce learning.