High-school students explore cultural fashion motifs with a contemporary twist.

In this article, we’ll explore the idea of integrating wacky drawing challenges as a daily activity to motivate students to push their creative boundaries. “Foodles,” or food doodles are inspired by the drawing game Foodles from the Imagineering Company. By integrating foodles into the art curriculum, I provided students with a playful way to challenge themselves creatively.

Students will use primary and secondary colored markers and air-dry modeling clay to demonstrate emotions in art.

Elementary students adapt and recreate a famous artwork or artist portrait in art parody style by incorporating animals into the piece.

The Arts in Alley community event was part of a larger endeavor to establish a strong visual art program by generating student interest in exhibiting artwork.

Elementary students create donut designs using the free program Microsoft Paint 3D. Students carefully considered the elements of art and principles of design when creating their digital artworks.

We start by discussing where we see satire and parody in pop culture. Students naturally wind up talking about “Weird Al” Yankovic or SNL (Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update—things that clearly parody society. I introduce them to artists who use parody in their art, which leads us to examine the art of Garbage Pail Kids (GPK) artist John Pound. After examining a variety of images by the GPK artists, students brainstorm ideas for their own parody art cards.

Student artwork examples using Piktotape™. Get a box of PiktoTape™ and find lesson plans and more resources at DavisArt.com/PiktoTape.