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Arts and Crafts Lesson Plans, Activities, Ideas - Arts Crafts Lessons

Arts and Crafts Lesson Plans, Activities, and Ideas that will help the elementary school teacher inspire creativity and individuality in her students. Also includes art appreciation resources.

Describing A Picture Lesson Plan

How to use a picture, including works of art, to facilitate creative student thinking and writing.

Family Crafts

Our expert About.com guide shows you how the family that crafts together, stays together.

Making the Case for Art Curriculum

So many of us have watched our schools' art programs be slashed and cut and minimized beyond belief. This interesting article examines why The Arts are really more important to the development of our students that some administrators seem to think.

Art Start

How does art tell stories? Children are motivated to learn more about art through a fun interactive journey.

Art Safari from MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art's examination of animals and art for children and adults.

Crayola Creativity Central - Lesson Plans

An exceedingly searchable database of lesson plans centered on everyone's favorite crayons.

The Art Teacher Connectilon

Bills itself as "Encouraging Technology Innovation in Art Education." Very comprehensive and practical.

Art Education at the Getty

Outstanding art resources for teachers, including lesson plans that all meet the California state visual arts content standards.

Living Colour

What exactly is color and how does it work? From the Australian Museum Online.

Enchanted Learning's Crafts Page

You won't believe how many crafts they have on this site and how well-organized they are. Definitely one to bookmark for future reference!

Artchive

Like having all of the world's artistic masterpieces at your fingertips. A virtual museum for children to explore and study.

Inside Art: An Art History Game

An adventure in art history from Educational Web Adventures.

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