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Elementary students use everyday objects to create enchanting, illuminating bookshelf installations.
In this issue, high-school art teacher Kathleen Sneed Petka shares her Trash to Treasure challenge, an activity to inspire students to reuse materials and to find the beauty in everyday items.
Middle- and high-school students celebrate the stories of individuals who have impacted our world for the better.
Elementary students arrange natural materials to create delicate scenes and use photography to document their work.
High-school students reuse and repurpose found materials to create beautiful works of art.
High-school students investigate shape-based thinking and color theory while creating paintless paintings with tissue paper.
Young students use rubbing plates, watercolors, and found objects to make a textured collage.
Elementary students participate in an art challenge in which they utilize discarded works to create something new.
The Washed Ashore organization builds and exhibits aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and to spark positive changes in consumer habits. Learn how the Washed Ashore project served as a catalyst for students to use plastic trash to create works of art.
Elementary students collaborate, problem-solve, and take creative risks while contributing to a 3D-printed sculpture garden.
Middle-school students create a drawing by envisioning a shape created from blister packaging.
Early Childhood students print lines and shapes to design an architectural structure or building.
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