| Art Appreciation |
A Kid's Columbus |
| (Modern architecture, sculpture, and historic preservation) | |
| Chaos I by Jean Tinguely | |
| (Kinetic or "in motion" metal sculpture) | |
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Large Arch by Henry Moore |
| (Bronze sculpture inspired by Stonehenge; patina) | |
| America the Beautiful? | |
| (Picasso and using art for self-expression) | |
| Carve a Free form Sculpture | |
| (Henry Moore; negative space; in-the-round sculpture) | |
| Create a Butterfly Mobile | |
| (Alexander Calder; mobiles and stabiles) | |
| Create Artist Trading Cards | |
| (Card examples to create) | |
| Design a Postage Stamp for Black History Month | |
| (Postage stamp design and selection criteria) | |
| Draw a Portrait | |
| (Leonardo da Vinci) | |
| Create Artist Trading Cards | |
| (Design cards for trading) | |
| Mail Your Art! | |
| (Mail as an art form) | |
| Make a Treasure Box | |
| (Faberge; containers as art) | |
| Make a Tray for Mother's Day | |
| (Australian Aboriginal dot painting) | |
| Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure | |
| (Folk art and the Uncle Sam icon) | |
| Painting without a Brush | |
| (Jackson Pollack and action painting) | |
| What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation? | |
| (Picasso, Braque, and the art of collage) | |
| Citizenship and/or Service Learning | America the Beautiful? |
| (Cleaning an urban area and making a litter collage) | |
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Goodbye, Trashasaurus Rex! |
| (Helping others in need) | |
| Make a Drawing to Help Save a Building | |
| (Historic preservation) | |
| Make your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture | |
| (Using art to make a public statement) | |
| Make a Trashasaurus Rex Model | |
| (Small dinosaur sculpture done in papier-mâché) | |
| Show your Colors and Weave a Freedom Bracelet | |
| (Empower children by making art. Includes discussion of terrorism) | |
| Support the Angel Project | |
| (Recycle materials to make an angel ornament in remembrance of the victims of 9/11) | |
| Support the Earth Day Groceries Project | |
| (Annual American environmental project) | |
| Environmental Stewardship (Solid Waste Management) |
Education Department |
| (Landfills and types of solid waste) | |
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Trash a Pizza! |
| (Composition of American landfills by percentage of solid waste types) | |
| Science | Education Department |
| (Landfills and types of solid waste) | |
| Links | |
| (Dozens of environmental and educational sites) | |
| Badge Matcher | |
| (Girl Scout and Brownie badges linked to specific projects) | |
| Trash Matcher | |
| (Hundreds of solid waste types linked to all the site's projects) | |
| Chaos by Jean Tinguely | |
| (Kinetic or "in motion" metal sculpture) | |
| Large Arch by Henry Moore | |
| Moore (Bronze sculpture inspired by Stonehenge; patina) | |
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Second Street Bridge |
| (Suspension bridge) | |
| Streetscape and Friendship Way | |
| (Using neon and other gases to make art) | |
| Build a Trashasaurus Rex Model | |
| (Small dinosaur sculpture done in papier-mâché) | |
| Carve a Free-form Sculpture | |
| (How to mix plaster; discussion of patina.) | |
| Create a Butterfly Mobile | |
| (Butterflies as endangered species) | |
| Draw on Kenaf | |
| (USDA suggested non-wood alternative to conventional paper) | |
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Make a Rain Stick for Earth Day |
| (Recycle a cardboard tube to make a percussion instrument for Earth Day, April 22) | |
| Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture | |
| Sculpture (How to make a giant, solid waste sculpture) | |
| Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap | |
| (Use of water, potassium aluminum sulfate and carrageenan in the marbling process.) | |
| Trash a Pizza! | |
| (Landfill pie chart model and America Recycles Day) | |
| Multi-cultural Education and Diversity | Mail Your Art! |
| (International mail art project) | |
| Mail Your Art 2000 | |
| (International mail art project) | |
| Create Artist Trading Cards | |
| (Card examples to create) | |
| Design a Postage Stamp for Black History Month | |
| (Black heroes) | |
| Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap | |
| (Turkish and Japanese art forms) | |
| Wrap it up for Chanukah! | |
| (Jewish Festival of Lights) | |
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Make a Papier-mâché Bowl |
| (Native Americans and petroglyphs) | |
| Make a Rain Stick for Earth Day | |
| (Chilean craft) | |
| Origami Boxes | |
| (Japanese craft) | |
| Tie and Dye a T-shirt | |
| (African decorative method) | |
| Make a Tray for Mother's Day | |
| (Australian Aboriginal dot painting) | |
Careers |
A Kid's Columbus |
| (Architecture and sculpture) | |
| Create Artist Trading Cards | |
| (Design cards for trading) | |
| Illustrate a Word | |
| (Graphic design) | |
| Plants | Draw on Kenaf |
| (USDA suggested non-wood alternative to conventional paper) | |
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Make a Garden Goddess |
| (Scarecrow made from a dried gourd) | |
| Clothing and Textiles | Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap |
| (Recycle an old handkerchief to make a furoshiki) | |
| Show your Colors and Weave a Freedom Bracelet | |
| (Simple weaving on a soda straw loom) | |
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Soda Straw Weaving |
| (Simple weaving on a soda straw loom) | |
| Tie and Dye a T-shirt | |
| (Use an African decorative method to recycle old T-shirts) | |
| Child Care, Family, and Home | Cover a Picture Frame Mat |
| (Recycle used or damaged mats) | |
| Craft a Luminary | |
| (Recycle a metal can to create a lantern) | |
| Go Fly a Kite! | |
| (Recycle a dry cleaning bag to make a kite) | |
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Knot a Bubble Wand |
| (Use macramé to make a bubble wand) | |
| The Flat Stanley Project | |
| (Universal art activity) | |
| Make a Garden Goddess | |
| (Scarecrow made from a dried gourd) | |
| Make a Papier-mâché Bowl | |
| (Learn about Native Americans and pottery) | |
| Snowman Christmas Tree Ornament | |
| Ornament (Recycle junk mail to make an ornament) | |
| Make a Tray for Mother's Day | |
| (Recycle a used frame to make a gift) | |
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Torn Paper Bunny |
| (Make a collage from junk mail and a wallpaper sample) | |
| Valentine Character Mailbox | |
| (Recycle a tissue box to make a valentine container) | |
| Make a Treasure Box | |
| (Recycle foam core to make a Father's Day gift) | |
| Support the Angel Project | |
| (Recycle materials to make an angel ornament in remembrance of the victims of 9/11) | |
Holidays |
Cast a Paper Valentine |
| (Make valentines by casting tissue gift wrap paper) | |
| Secret Valentine | |
| (Recycle magazines to make valentines) | |
| Valentine Character Mailbox | |
| (Recycle a tissue box to make a valentine container) | |
| Torn Paper Bunny | |
| (Make a collage from junk mail) | |
| Make a Rain Stick for Earth Day | |
| (Recycle a cardboard tube to make a percussion instrument for Earth Day, April 22) | |
| Make a Tray for Mother's Day | |
| (Recycle a picture frame to make a gift) | |
| Make a Print! Make a Print! Make a Print! | |
| (Recycle polystyrene grocery trays to print greeting cards for Mother's Day or Father's Day) | |
| Make a Treasure Box | |
| (Recycle foam core to make a Father's Day gift) | |
| Craft a Luminary | |
| (Recycle a metal can to create a lantern for Independence Day, Halloween, or Christmas) | |
| Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure | |
| (Create an Uncle Sam character in celebration of American Independence Day) | |
| Make a Halloween Crayon Etching | |
| Etching (Make a drawing to decorate for Halloween) | |
| Put on a Happy Face! | |
| (Use paper sculpture techniques to make a Halloween mask) | |
| Make a Papier-mâché Bowl | |
| (Learn about Native Americans and Thanksgiving) | |
| Wrap it up for Chanukah! | |
| (Create a different type of wrapping paper or container for each night of Chanukah) | |
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Snowman Christmas Tree Ornament |
| (Recycle junk mail to make an ornament) | |
| Make a Birdhouse Christmas Ornament | |
| (Make an ornament from a cardboard carton) | |
| Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap | |
| (Recycle an old handkerchief to make gift wrap) | |
| Have a Green Christmas | |
| (Decorate an entire Christmas tree by recycling) | |
| Origami Boxes | |
| (Use a Japanese method of folding paper to make small boxes from Christmas cards.) | |
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Support the Angel Project |
| (Make an angel ornament in remembrance of the victims of 9/11) |
