Who doesn’t love a parade? Parades are celebratory, festive, and colorful, and the floats display an endless variety of themes. The pageantry of a parade is exhilarating and makes everyone feel good. What better way to showcase student artwork than by parading it through the halls of your school? Although parades are typically very grand, our parade would need to be significantly scaled down. Introducing STEAM into my art room, I challenged my middle-school students to create their own miniature versions of a parade float.
Play and process-based art abound in the summer issue! Art teachers share lessons in which students can take risks and experiment with materials in a stress-free environment. Students create artful sound sticks to express emotions, assemble 3D hats inspired by art careers, collaborate or work solo to engineer mixed-media parade floats, draw colorful portraits with exaggerated expressions, and more.
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