Article described how students, seven sixth graders, learned about the ancient craft of back-strap weaving. (Author/RK)

If your school district is like most school districts, money for supplies is an increasing problem. Art teachers are continually trying to develop meaningful art projects for which the cost is minimal. Here students learn to use discarded, large number 10 cans as planters for a macrame project. (Author/RK)

Wanting to provide some large permanent art to brighten a functional, yet sterile, lower school facility, fifth and sixth grade students designed and built a mural using some long-stored pieces of mosaic tile of various sizes and colors. (Author/RK)

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)

Attempting to create something different is stimulating and challenging. With this in mind, the author introduced a clay-building project in which students created a functional coil container different from any they had ever seen. (Author/RK)

A window transparency is made from black paper strips and colored tissue papers. The three visual elements of line, shape and color are emphasized for this project. (Author)

Article focused on the technique of creating batik prints, which while stirring student interest, were hung in school halls as part of the permanent collection of student work. (Author/RK)

An art teacher from Big Bear Lake Middle School in California started an art project that wouldn't use the paper, paint and paste of her previous classes. What she came up with was quickly dubbed "wood sculpture". Describes the priorities for creating wood sculpture. (Author/RK)

Ancient techniques of fabric embellishment merge with present-day attitudes about expressive values in art. (Editor)

On a scale of one to ten, children rate miniature making as a grand enterprise and a great way to learn. (Editor)

Secondary students find that junk is an inspiration for a creative project in the final days of high school. (RK)

Describes an art activity aimed at the creation of a free-flowing design of lines and shapes. (Author/RK)

Papier-mache has traditionally been thought of as a quick, inexpensive and rough-finish type of activity for young children. At Lincoln Junior High, Wisconsin, papier-mache has evolved into a rather sophisticated form of sculpture. (Author/RK)

An art educator motivates his elementary students by developing their strong personal identification with each of 30 projects, introducing them to architecture. The author describes a few of these projects and how students benefit. (RK)

An abstract "hand" sculpture is a good beginning project to help children understand the meaning of space and form. Here some elementary students learn what sculpture is and ways that it can be done. (Author/RK)