ck and forth over the thin white paper. The raised
parts are reproduced on the paper.
4.

Continue placing different objects under the paper using 3 to 5 different
colors, until the paper is completely covered with design.

Grades 1 3
Animals in Winter

Materials

1.

Paper (light blue or light colored)
2.

Paint, brushes (or crayons)
3.

Cloth or sponges, water
4.

Chalk
Activity

Before drawing, think about proportion and basic shapes of animals. The body of
most animals are ovals or circular. Then added to this rounded form are circles
and/or ovals for the head. Then the legs can be drawn as slender triangles. Use
pictures from magazines, books or other images.

1.

Using a brush, practice on newspaper or large paper.
2.

When you have painted animals you like, leaving space at the bottom, paint
them on light blue paper.
3.

Add trees with branches (no leaves) using dark brown paint.
4.

Under and behind the animals, add the snow using chalk (or white crayon).
5.

Add the falling snow all around and then snow on top of the tree branches.

Grades 4 - 6
Making a Book called, The House

Each page of this book is made separately. Once all the pages and written work is
completed, they are organized page-after-page and bound together by gluing the
back of one page to the back of the next page.
Materials

1.

Crayons, felt-tip markers, colored pencils or watercolor paints
2.

Sheets of paper
3.

Glue
4.

Scissors

Activity

The subject of the book can be about a house or apartment and the story of a
house from any century, any culture, and any climate. It can be about community
stores, a grandparents house or your house.

1. Fold a piece of paper in half.
2.

Create a story. Write text on one side and draw an illustration on the other
side.
3.

Do this for at least three whole pages, until you have numbered to page 8.
4.

The pages are then glued back-to-back to each other.
5.

For example, the back of the right side of page 2 would be glued to the back
of the left side of page 3.
6.

Cover with a sheet of colored paper. Draw the house, write a title and your
name as the author.

Option:
1.

Create a pop-up of a house to insert in one of the folded pages.
2.

Draw the outline of a house, starting with a roof line to the base of the house.
3.

Cut only the roof line and the base of the house.
4.

Fold the flap back and forth until its well creased. Open the page like a
mountain in front of you (called a mountain fold)
5.

Push the flap through to the other side. Decorate.

Grades 7 9
Flap Books

Create a book that holds a surprise of a flap with an image inside. The fun is not
knowing what is under the flap. Curiosity gets the best of us and we must take a
peek.

Materials
1.

Crayons, felt-tip markers, colored pencils or water color paints
2.

Sheets of paper
3.

Glue
4.

Scissors
5.

Pencils

Activity
Before drawing, look at a door in your house or apartment. In your drawing of a
door, include panels, a window and a doorknob.
1.

Fold one piece of paper in half and crease well. Decide the door shape, size
and location on either half of the page but not along the center crease.
2.

Draw the door.
3.

Cut along the top edge, the side with the door handle and the bottom edge of
the door with scissors. Gently crease the door along the remaining side,
creating the flap.
4.

Complete drawing. Be sure to color both sides of the door.
5.

Place pieces of white paper behind door opening and mark the door outline.
This will indicate where you should draw the behind-the-door scene after you
take the door away.
6.

Completely color the behind-the-door scene. Then line up the drawing and
glue the scene in place by putting a small amount of glue around the door
edges.

Grades 10 - 12
Create

a Magazine
Creating your own magazine involves many skills, from drawing, writing and
making things, to interviewing people, to sorting out ideas and information. Even
though magazines are created by teams of people, you can create your own by
putting all of your skills to creative use.

Materials

1.

Crayons, felt-tip markers, colored pencils or watercolor paints
2.

Sheets of paper
3.

Glue
4.

Scissors
5.

Pencils

Activity

It is a good idea to use a notebook and jot down ideas that come to mind. You can
divide the notebook into sections, such as important issues, stories, competitions,
cartoons, illustrations, and people in your household to interview.

1.

IDEAS - Write down ideas for themes and stories. Interview family
members. Invent games and quizzes. Explain how to make things.
2.

WORDS Make cards or use your notebook to note descriptions of
characters in a story. Choose a typeface which matches the words.
3.

PICTURES Create a collage to illustrate a story. Paint pictures to illustrate
stories, poems or the cover. Draw cartoons for adventure stories.
4.

DESIGN Plan the pages on a storyboard. Write the page numbers in one
corner. Design patterned borders for pages or boxes. Use a grid or ruler to
make sure all parts of the designed page are in the right position
5.

COVER For the title of the magazine, choose big, bold letters and shapes.
Use letters that are an interesting shape and overlap them or put them at an
angle. Leave space for the date and number of the issue. 6.

MAKING Staple or sew the pages together or use plastic binders.

Options:
!

Use a computer to create word-processed pages of text. Add pictures that you
have drawn later.
!

Make a poster to advertise the first issue of the magazine.
!

Create an Art News Journal. Design and construct the beginnings of an
ongoing Art News Journal by creating a cover and then cutting out articles
about art from the newspaper.
!

Create an illustrated Career Journal. On the first pages, take an inventory of
your talents, interests and skills. Illustrate on the facing page. On the next
page, make a list of careers that use those skills. Illustrate on the facing page.
Then on the following pages write about the steps you are taking and need to
take in the future that will lead you successfully to that career. Include the
hurdles you will face and the choices you will take to get over those hurdles.

MATH

Source: www.askdrmath.com

GRADE 7:
1. Georgina loves milk, and she also loves working with numbers. Just for
fun she thought of combining a number pattern and the drinking of a gallon
of milk. She imagined asking someone to do this:

Start by drinking one-half a gallon, then two-thirds of what is left, then
three-fourths of what is left, and then four-fifths of what is left, and so
on.

She thought how cool it would be to figure out exactly how much milk would
be left! How much milk did she figure would be left after taking ten
drinks?

Bonus: The amount of milk remaining in the gallon is quite small. Just how
small is it? Can you convert that fraction of a gallon to cubic millimeters?

2. At Annie's Home-Cooked Chicken Wings Restaurant, chicken wings are
served by the bucket. The Biggest Bucket O' Wings is really big! Let's
figure out how many wings are in it.

If they're removed two at a time, one wing will be left. If they're removed
three at a time, two wings will remain. If they're removed four, five, or
six at a time, then three, four, and five wings, respectively, will remain.
If they're taken out seven at a time, no wings will be left over.

What's the smallest possible number of wings that could be in the bucket? How do you know?


GRADE 8:

1. Annie and Steve were assigned kitchen duty at camp. They agreed that
each would peel half of the potatoes for the upcoming meal. Annie peels 5
potatoes a minute and Steve can peel 3 potatoes per minute.

Steve gets a 4-minute head start, and then they continue peeling until they
have finished the pile. If they each peel the same number of potatoes, how
many potatoes were there when they started?

Bonus: What if Steve had a 5-minute head start? Discuss what happens in this
situation.


2. In Salt Lake City they built an Olympic-size ice hockey rink. The ice
rink is 100 feet by 200 feet, with quarter circles in the corners that have
a radius of 20 feet.

As I was watching people skate, I started wondering how much water was
needed to cover a rink that size. I knew that I would need to find the
surface area of the rink first.

What is the surface area of the rink?

Bonus:
I found out that the ice on a hockey rink is 1.25 inches thick and there are
231 cubic inches in a gallon. How much water is needed to cover the ice
rink?


GRADE 9:

1. Tashawn and Forrest are taking a three-day canoe trip. They'll paddle
upstream for two days to a campground they have stayed at before (spending
one night camping in a field), then paddle back downstream the third day in
time to meet Forrest's mother at the spot where she dropped them off.
The first day the boys paddle 13 hours. It takes them 9 hours of paddling
the second day to get to the campground. If they paddle at