Activities for the Home & Classroom

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With a little creativity, these activities also work in the museum.

Drawing

Create a Landscape (.pdf, 157k)
Drawing Crowds (.pdf, 337k)
Explore Perspective (.pdf, 176k)
Explore Selma’s Journey (.pdf, 244k)
Look at Cityscapes (.pdf, 197k)
Look Closer: A New Perspective (.pdf, 178k)
Look Closer: Your Perceptions (.pdf, 265k)
Peaceable Kingdom (.pdf, 171k)
Planning an Art Studio (.pdf, 158k)
Profile Portraits (.pdf, 175k)
Tune Up Your Drawings (.pdf, 102k)

Drama

Act it Out! The Story of Annie and William Lathrop (.pdf, 125k)

History

Fishing Nets in Modern Times (.pdf, 111k)
The Story of Trade (.pdf, 93k)
Pennsylvania Landscape and History (.pdf, 251k)

Illustration

Create a Gag Cartoon
Create an Illustration
Create a Storyboard
Write a Story with the Berenstein Bears

James A. Michener

Michener, Art Lover
Michener, A Treasury of Sonnets
Michener, A Writers Journey
Michener, Public Servant
Michener, The Traveler
Michener, Traveler, Citizen, Writer

Language Arts

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words (.pdf, 137k)
Artists Paint the Sea (.pdf, 152k)
Celebrate Asia (.pdf, 90k)
Colors and Symbols in Art (.pdf, 121k)
Explore the Instruments (.pdf, 337k)
Explore Charles Evans’ Abstraction (.pdf, 172k)
Explore Selma’s Journey (.pdf, 244k)
Life on a Farm (.pdf, 89k)
Looking at Seascapes (.pdf, 243k)
Look Closer: A New Perspective (.pdf, 178k)
Look Closer: Symbols and Social Issues (.pdf, 216k)
Look Closer: Your Perceptions (.pdf, 265k)
Look Up Close (.pdf, 84k)
Newsflash! What’s the Story? (.pdf, 181k)
Peaceable Songs (.pdf, 111k)
Peaceable Writings (.pdf, 147k)
Profile Portraits (.pdf, 175k)
Still Life Stories (.pdf, 147k)
Stones from Around the World (.pdf, 221k)
Stories in Stone (.pdf, 182k)
Street Beats (.pdf, 149k)
Symbols and Poetry in Art (.pdf, 165k)
Tell a Story with Art (.pdf, 164k)
Telling Tales with Art (.pdf, 189k)
What Do You See? (.pdf, 211k)
Which Stones are Real? (.pdf, 238k)
Write About Peace (.pdf, 190k)

Mixed Media

All About Abstraction (.pdf, 181k)
Create a Grid Collage (.pdf, 297k)
Create a Layered Landscape (.pdf, 170k)
Inspire Your Art (.pdf, 89k)
Letters and Numbers in Art (.pdf, 180k)
Looking at Still Life (.pdf, 244k)
Seascapes (.pdf, 180k)

Painting

Big and Small (.pdf, 173k)
Coppedge’s Blue Snow and Red Trees (.pdf, 155k)
Create a Sumie Ink Painting
Create an Impressionist Landscape
D’Apparat (.pdf, 169k)
Know Your Colors
Know Your Shapes
Know Your Lines
Landscape: An Ideal Place (.pdf, 158k)
Looking at Landscapes (.pdf, 382k)
Paint a Mural (.pdf, 120k)
Paint a Portrait(.pdf, 134k)
Painted Shapes (.pdf, 195k)
Pennsylvania Landscape and History (.pdf, 251k)
Snowy Day Landscape (.pdf, 190k)
Twin Compositions (.pdf, 152k)
Wet on Wet (.pdf, 95k)
Women Artists and Styles (.pdf, 354k)
Create an Impasto Landscape! (.pdf, 76k)
Create a Nightscape (.pdf, 197k)

Photography

Critical Analysis of a Photograph (.pdf, 150k)
Explore Abstraction with Photography (.pdf, 225k)
Reading a Photograph (.pdf, 118k)
The Composition of A Photograph (.pdf, 189k)
The View Camera (.pdf, 165k)

Printmaking

Explore Charles Evans’ Abstraction (.pdf, 172k)

Sculpture

Build a Gaudi Structure (.pdf, 110k)

Talking About Art

Ten Ways to Use Art in Your Classroom (.pdf, 138k)
Top Ten Questions to Ask About Art (.pdf, 153k)
Top Ten Quotations About Art (.pdf, 185k)
Top Ten Michener Works (.pdf, 199k)
Top Ten Buildings (.pdf, 189k)
Top Ten Artists for Preschool Students (.pdf, 250k)
Top Ten Artists for K-3 Students (.pdf, 244k)
Top Ten Artists for 4-6 Students (.pdf, 243k)
Top Ten Artists for Middle and High School Students (.pdf, 245k)
Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for Preschool Students (.pdf, 197k)
Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for K-3 Students (.pdf, 198k)
Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for 4-6 Students (.pdf, 202k)
Top Ten Art Vocabulary Words for Middle School Students (.pdf, 199k)
12 Questions to Ask About Contemporary Art (.pdf, 122k)

Learning Resources