Educator Resources

Play with texture, smooth lines, and cracked surfaces using Yoko Ono’s Mended Petal. Enjoy the read aloud link for “Inch by Inch” by Leo Lionni and discover how the inchworm can measure this tall sculpture and other objects.

The artist Willem de Kooning used large movements and brush strokes known as “action painting”. Explore this technique and more by creating shapes of your own.

Strike a pose! Explore movement and create your very own sculpture inspired by the work of Alberto Giacometti. Enjoy the read aloud link to make connections between this artwork and the book, “From Head to Toe” by Eric Carle.

Go on an adventure with a woman and her dog. Use your imagination to create a story and enjoy the read aloud link to make connections between this sculpture and “Not a Stick” by Antoinette Portis.

This activity uses artworks and your observation skills to practice making inferences about an artwork’s meaning.

What more can we learn about the past by “talking” to the people depicted in works of art? This activity uses your observation skills and imagination to help you learn more about a work of art and the time period when it was created. 

This activity uses artworks and your close looking skills to practice making metaphors and similes. 

“HOP!” You are now in the scene. Use all of your senses to explore as work of art. 

Abstract Expressionism was an American art movement that developed in the 1940s and 1950s, the period just after World War II. The artists mostly used bold color and dynamic application of paint to convey strong emotion and content.

Much can be learned about a culture and the way they view the world by studying the images they create.

Bring your ideas to life—create your own story using details from two works of art.