These mixed media Amate Bark paintings will inspire your students while teaching them about the traditions of Mexican bark painting. They are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month or any time of year. These projects are designed for elementary students (Kindergarten - 5th grade). 

This lesson is highly engaging, cross-curricular & contains 4 different projects plus 4 different methods to create amate to use for the projects.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 24 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 4 amate projects
• Instructions & photos for creating 4 different amate project backgrounds that can be mixed & matched with all 4 projects
• Suggestions for project and material variations 
• Templates (reproducible) of 4 project designs
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Information on amate artists
• Amate facts
• Tips for project success
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for Kindergarten-5th grades

Set up stations and let students choose a project or rotate through and complete several while learning about traditional amate. 

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Take your Art room to the next level with this cross-curricular collage project for upper elementary students. Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month, Day of the Dead, or anytime, this project has it all - high student engagement, multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular, differentiation strategies for reaching all learners, project examples, ideas to incorporate this lesson into centers, and much, much more!

I love doing this project in October leading up to Halloween because this artwork produces a great seasonal multicultural display that is tied to Día de los Muertos (and not Halloween). Hispanic Heritage Month ends a few weeks before Day of the Dead and this project integrates them perfectly!

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 20 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos
• Lesson variations with instructions and photos
• Calavera drawing guide with differentiation ideas for students
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts and resources
• Day of the Dead facts and resources
• Center suggestions for calavera drawing
• Center suggestions for use with collage project
• Ideas for assessments to use with centers for collage project

Using this lesson is also a great way to assess your students' fine motor skills, creativity, use of materials, and so much more. It is designed and has been used with 3-5th grades but is adaptable for middle school. This lesson includes TEKS (if you are in Texas) and National Core Arts Standards for 3rd-5th grades.

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This resource contains 3 clay calavera projects, 1 plaster calavera project with 3 options for finishing the calavera, plus 1 bonus clay flower project.  This highly engaging multicultural lesson is perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month or Day of the Dead. Designed for 2nd grade - 5th grade students & up, it features tons of extras to make your project successful even if you have never used these materials before!  

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 34 pages. It includes:

• Lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 3 clay calavera project
• Lesson with step-by-step instructions with photos for plaster calavera project
• Detailed instructions and photos for finishing plaster project with 3 different materials
• Bonus lesson with step-by-step instructions with photos for clay flowers project
• Calavera drawing guide
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Tips for project success
• Tips for working with plaster
• Guide to ordering plaster
• Hispanic Heritage Month facts
• Day of the Dead facts
• Calavera facts
• Suggestions for assessment
• Vocabulary assignment for off-task or disruptive students
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades

Even if you have never worked with plaster before, this lesson contains everything you need for project success!  This lesson produces wonderful 3D artwork for display. This multicultural lesson is a great alternative to traditional Halloween projects.

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Kirigami is a highly engaging, hands-on Day of the Dead project for upper elementary students and is perfect for dual language classes. This cross-curricular project can be used for Hispanic Heritage Month, Day of the Dead, or anytime and works well for Art on a cart. It includes tips for all learners to be successful and includes a 1 page student instruction sheet in English and Spanish to help your dual language students stay on track.

This is a project I do in October leading up to Halloween and Day of the Dead because this artwork produces a fantastic seasonal multicultural display that is tied to Día de los Muertos. This project is a great way to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month and Day of the Dead!

This resource is in a PDF file that is 17 pages. It includes

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos
• Calavera drawing guide
• Student instruction sheet in English & Spanish
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts and resources
• Day of the Dead facts and resources
• Early finisher activities
• 3 black and white full-page calaveras to use as examples for students and with early finisher activities
• Ideas for assessments to use with centers for collage project
• Instructions for use on Art on a cart
• Suggestions for setting up project using stations
• Suggestions for project variations
• TEKS and National Core Arts Standards for 3rd-5th grades

This lesson was designed and has been used with 3-5th grades but is adaptable for middle school.

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This hands-on set of 3 lessons has multiple variations to provide your elementary students with engaging multidisciplinary lessons. These lessons will engage even the most reluctant learners in the Art room while bringing geography, social studies, and science into the Art room while meeting your Art standards for all your students from Kindergarten through 5th grade.

What is included:

Step-by-step instructions with pictures for 3 cactus lessons plus instructions for variations

Visual arts standards for Kindergarten through 5th grade

Cactus fact sheet

Cactus research worksheet

Cross-curricular and literacy connections that can be used with all lessons

This lesson is in a PDF file.

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Looking for an engaging, cross-curricular lesson that teaches multiple techniques to your students? This is the lesson! This highly engaging lesson captivates students and incorporates social studies, science, and literacy into an art lesson that produces amazing artwork.

This mixed media lesson is great for Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Heritage Month or anytime and uses multiple materials to provide students with a highly engaging project. Designed for upper elementary (or middle school) students, it can be structured to use with centers or a partial TAB classroom.

This lesson is in a PDF file. It includes:

• Step by step instructions and photos for cross-curricular lesson
• National Arts Standards for grades 4-7
• Literacy and cross-curricular connections
• Practice sheets for doodling
• Cactus facts sheet
• Suggestions for artists to include when teaching the lesson with links for additional information

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These piñata projects are based on traditional piñata shapes and will inspire your students to explore different materials while creating a collage or mixed media artwork.   This cross-curricular lesson is perfect for Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Heritage Month, the end of the year, or any time. This project is designed for 2nd-5th grades but can be adapted for younger & older grades.

This piñata lesson is highly engaging, multi-disciplinary, and contains 5 different projects plus step by step drawing guides for creating 2 different traditional piñatas.  Facts about Cinco de Mayo and piñatas are included.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 27 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 5 projects
• Step by step drawing guides with instructions and photos for 2 traditional piñata shapes
• Suggestions for project variations 
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Facts about Cinco de Mayo
• Facts about piñatas
• 2 traditional piñata templates in multiple sizes 
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades

This lesson has everything you need to engage your students with a fantastic end of year project.

It includes TEKS (if you are in Texas) and National Arts Standards for 2nd-5th grades.

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Hispanic Heritage Month is coming! This highly engaging, cross-curricular project is adaptable for all elementary grades kindergarten through 5th grade. Students love printmaking and this resource includes 3 different printmaking choices and multiple variations to complete the project designed so you can mix and match to create a customized project to work with your students. This lesson is multicultural, cross-curricular, and produces fantastic student artwork for display.

This resource is in a PDF file and includes:

• 3 printmaking projects with step-by-step instructions with photos
• Multiple ways to finish the projects
• Multiple project variations with photos
• Hispanic Heritage fact sheet
• Maracas fact sheet
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections

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This mola lesson features 4 engaging projects for Hispanic Heritage Month. Two of the projects can also be used for Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). These projects are highly engaging, multicultural, and produce amazing artwork for display for Hispanic Heritage Month. These projects are designed for grades 2-5.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 26 pages. It includes:

• Mola cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 4 projects
• Project variations
• Calavera drawing guide
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts
• Day of the Dead facts
• Mola fact sheet
• Exit tickets
• 2 mola templates

This lesson includes TEKS (if you are in Texas) and National Core Arts Standards for 2nd-5th grades.

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This is a non-traditional Frida Kahlo cross-curricular lesson that elementary students love. Perfect for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 - October 15, this engaging lesson combines information about Frida Kahlo and her love for animals and combines it with one of her famous self-portraits (The Frame, 1938) while bringing social-emotional learning into your classroom.

This resource includes 3 cross-curricular projects - the Frida Kahlo portrait, a spider monkey, and a macaw drawing project, plus 2 different frame projects to use with the projects.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 17 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson for drawing spider monkey and macaw with detailed instructions and photos
• Cross-curricular lesson for Frida Kahlo portrait with detailed instructions and photos
• 2 frame projects with clear instructions and photos
• 3 reference photos of parrots & 2 of monkeys (reproducible)
• Cross-curricular, social-emotional learning, and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts and resources
• TEKS and National Core Arts Standards for grades 2-5
• Assessment ideas

This lesson is designed and has been used with 2-5th grades but is adaptable for middle school.

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Are you ready for a highly engaging Hispanic Heritage or Day of the Dead project with your upper elementary (and middle school) students? This is the project. Students love this hands-on project! This lesson has it all - high student engagement, multicultural, cross-curricular, and it produces fantastic student artwork for display.

This holiday has become more popular in the United States. Teach your students about this important day in Hispanic culture while giving students a chance to create a unique calavera. This resource includes a fact sheet about Day of the Dead to help explain it to students (& parents or administrators!) who may not fully understand the significance of the Day of the Dead in Hispanic culture. Students grades 3 and up of all skills levels can successfully complete this project.

This resource includes:

• Step-by-step instructions with photos
• Tips for project variations
• Literacy & cross-curricular connections
• Hispanic Heritage Month fact sheet
• Day of the Dead fact sheet (2 pages)

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Looking for an engaging multicultural lesson for Hispanic Heritage Month or Cinco de Mayo that is great for all elementary grades & incorporates other disciplines? This lesson includes multiple projects with varying levels of difficulty so it can be completed by Kindergarten through 5th grade students.

This product contains 3 sombrero lessons of varying difficulties complete with step-by-step instructions and photos for each, cross-curricular and literacy connections, Hispanic Heritage month information, and a Cinco de Mayo fact sheet to meet the diverse needs of all your elementary learners.  Bring culture, social studies, and other subjects into the Art room while working on your Art standards and giving students the opportunity to make some amazing artwork. 

This project is in a PDF file. It includes:

• 3 sombrero projects with step-by-step instructions
• Sombrero drawing guide
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Cinco de mayo facts
• Hispanic Heritage Month facts 

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