Steps for organizing and implementing a program that involves elementary students in beautifying their school with large-scale wall graphics are outlined. Sources of design, drawing hints, painting methods, application techniques, and follow-up activities are discussed. (RM)

An art teacher at an inner city elementary school has found that his young students are eager to join his after-school art club and to tackle the difficult processes of etching and printmaking. This article describes the program's printmaking procedures and facilities. (SJL)

In this project, students are forced to think about themselves, how they feel, how they fit in their world, where they're going. After striking a pose, a student's contour is then drawn by a partner. Students have the option of filling up the entire body or only the background with college materials. (Author/RK)

Author described a technique, called mandrel rolling, by which hollow clay forms are produced in the process of making a ceramic. (RK)

Describes a printmaking project that has potential, not only as a design activity and for student experience with printing techniques, but also as an image-builder for the program of art education in any school. In this instance students at Woodstown High School, New Jersey, printed a calendar, but other themes may be selected depending on the…

Poor results and frustration prompted the author, an art teacher at Deer Park Junior High School, Deer Park, Texas, to try a method of teaching batik design on material. (Author/RK)

This project utilized aluminum foil, a child's imagination, and a methodology for creative expression. (RK)

As an extension of their school crafts program, an art teacher improvised a forge and offered students blacksmithing on a limited scale. (Author/RK)

An unique approach toward a deeper understanding of art and artists by elementary school students, author also suggests implications for strengthening the basic skills of reading and writing. (Editor)

Serendipity is the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for and a doodle is an aimless, unconscious, automatic drawing. Here they are combined in order to create imaginative designs. Briefly discusses five principles of design. (Author/RK)

A tongue depressor is the simplest means of introducing weaving to small children short of paper weaving. Describes techniques used by elementary school children in such a project. (Author/RK)

Here is an inexpensive approach for broadening student knowledge of metal techniques. Electroforming and electroetching are fully described. (Author/RK)

The potter's wheel has been used for centuries as a tool in the production of pitchers, containers for storing and dispensing liquids. Using many traditional and beautiful pitcher shapes as a source of inspiration this potter's wheel project is intended to stimulate creative design concepts, initiate original thought, and encourage experimentation…

In this day of tightening budgets, it is necessary to supplement the available art supplies with free or found materials. One such material is the colorful, patterned wallpaper sample book. Describes one art activity in which the basic material is from wallpaper sample books. (Author/RK)

Describes a project at Columbus East Senior High School, Columbus, Indiana, where supergraphics have been developed to the level of a sophisticated art form. This form of art serves a dual role as a pleasing decorative element and as a means of identification of specific areas within a building. Aside from being a constructive design activity,…