Process kits have been divided into six areas: Creative Drama, Creative Movement, Creative Writing, Integrated Arts, Visual Arts- Elements and Principles, Visual Arts -Processes. Process kits may be checked out for a 3week period. You may check out only one process kit at a time.

Click here to see items in the Desert Dwellers kit. Each kits has unique lesson plans, examples, tools needed for its theme.

CREATIVE DRAMA

Concentration - A creative kit with observations, games, puzzles, art/drama activities, and listening skills useful in developing concentratiion.

Hand Puppet Skills - Activities to teach students basic skills in manipulating hand puppets.

Improvisation - Activities designed to enable groups to create their own short improvised drama.

Intermediate Pantomime - Ideas and materials designed to help teach beginning pantomime skills to intermediate level students.

Let's Pretend - Activities to encourage dramatic play. This kit is designed for K-1st grade students.

Paper Puppets - Samples and instructions for ten different types of paper puppets, including activities to encourage their use.

Primary Pantomime - Ideas and materials designed to help teach beginning pantomime skills to primary level students.

Sending Messages - Designed to introduce elementary students at all grade levels to some of the ways people have communicated throughout the ages. The ways explored are: nonverbal communication, picture writing, signing for the deaf, semaphores, Morse code, Braille and games and progresses to more complex activities designed to challenge more advanced students.

Senses, The (K3) - Activities to develop a specific sense, improve descriptive language skills, and utilize sensory perception skills in pantomime and drama activities.

Shadow Puppets - This kit was created to open the door for shadow puppetry, a way of learning about a culture and it‚s traditions, through the telling of folktales. Materials and activities are adaptable for all levels.

Sight-Sound-Touch (4-6) - Ideas and activities to help the intermediate student develop the senses of sight, sound and touch; improve descriptive language and utilize sensory perception skills in pantomime and creative drama.

Soft Puppets - Samples and instructions for eight different types of cloth puppets, including activities to encourage their use.

Storytelling - Multi-situations to create stories and to develop the art of storytelling are included in this kit. Tall tales, characterizations, news reporting, games, as well as developing stories of unusual city names or wishes from a genie jar are some of the activities to stimulate the student's imagination.

CREATIVE MOVEMENT

Creative Movement 4-6 - Investigate ways of communication through body movements, and experience creative uses of the elements of dance.

Creative Movement K-3 - Background of basic elements of dance, and offers many ideas in motivating techniques for movement activities.

CREATIVE WRITING

Creative Writing - This kit has a variety of aids to give students story scenarios, settings, characters, situations, for developing their writing skills. Legends, stories from quotes, characterizations, personifications, writing poems and adventures are a few of the stories students will be developing.

Look Think Write - A series of exercises in building writing skills through imagery motivation.

INTEGRATED ARTS

African American Art - Information and activities which are designed to increase students' awareness of the contributions made by AfricanAmerican artists in the area of arts and crafts. Spans from the Early America period to present day.

An African Experience - This kit enables the students to experience the role of the arts and associated activities by having a celebration in the context of a generic African village.

Antonyms, Synonyms,Homonyms - This kit is directed to both the primary as well as the intermediate student. It is a fun way to learn about words through making their own games, mobiles, book covers, booklets of opposites, illustrated stories, card games, funny pictures and more.

Arizona Adventure - Explores Arizona's animals, cacti, cowboys, Indians, economy, geography, and Mexican influence through the use of a variety of art processes.

Art in the Outdoors - Provides an opportunity for students to explore a variety of art techniques while working in an outdoor setting. The theme of nature and the surrounding environment is incorporated into each of the activities.

Art with Life Science - Art projects designed to reinforce life science studies (the human body, plants and animals).

Art with Physical and Earth Science - Art projects designed to reinforce earth and physical science studies (machines, environment, ecology, solar energy).

Arts Activities with Caldecott Books - A celebration of four Caldecott winning books: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Drummer Hoff by Barbara and Ed Emberley, The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang, and Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott. The celebration activities include sharing the literature and responding with art, drama, and writing experiences.

Crafts of Japan - This kit explores the culture of Japan through hands on art activities involving a variety of 0media and techniques. Each activity is explained in terms of its cultural significance. A brief history of art is included as an introduction.

Cultural Awareness - This kit provides an opportunity for students to explore the development of cultural arts through the investigation of art principles and elements.

Desert Dwellers - This kit is designed for students to go back into time to create a new culture. Using art, drama, critical thinking, and creative writing, students learn how to work together. They write histories using symbols, create dramas, make instru-ments, masks, and mats for a final celebration.

Digging into the Past - This kit divides students into groups. It teaches them to read maps and legends by becoming „archaeologists‰. They create a drama at a dig site; use experimental archaeology to recreate pottery, jewelry, drawings, models, and reports.

Drama Activities Colonial America - Activities that incorporate the study of the Early America period with classroom drama activities. 

Drama Techniques for Cultural Studies - Designed to provide (a) teaching techniques for exploring cultural studies, (b) sample source material in the form of literature from various cultures, and (c) handson items to motivate and focus the drama activities.

Ellis Island - Designed to encourage students to actively explore the immigrant experience of leaving home to build a new life in America. It uses such creative drama techniques as improvisation, role playing, and dramatic reading to promote a better understanding of the hardships and hopes of our immigrant ancestors.

Folk Crafts of Mexico - Information, samples, and instructions will enable teachers to increase students appreciation and awareness of these traditional crafts, and to guide students in the construction of them.

Imagitorium Kit - The imagitorium kit is designed to enhance visual perception learning, and encourage creative expression through concrete exploration of objects, things and materials. The art curriculum is integrated into such subject areas as language arts, social studies, science, and math.

Imagitorium ll - The imagitorium II kit is designed as an extension of art activities that are explored in the Imagitorium Kit. It incorporates movement, change, pattern/shape.

Intermediate Art and Math - Art projects designed for reinforcing intermediate math concepts with instructions and examples.

Making Drama from the Middle Ages - Items are specifically designed as props or costume accessories for characters who lived during the Middle Ages.

Primary Art and Math - Primary math concepts integrated with art activities. Includes measurement, geometric shapes, symmetry, and math games.

Telling Stories Through Art - This kit includes several short stories from different cultures/countries with a variety of related art activities inspired by the stories.

VISUAL ARTS - ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES

Great Masters: Elements of Design - Gives students and teachers the opportunity to study desksize prints of paintings by great master painters and to follow through with art activities related to the paintings studied.

Great Masters: Principles of Art - Gives students and teachers the opportunity to study desksize prints of paintings by great master painters and to follow through with art activities related to the paintings studied.

I See Myself - Provides various art activities dealing with drawing self-portraits. Mirrors are provided for the students use.

Line (Intermediate Grades 4-6) - Designed to give students and teachers the opportunity to expand on knowledge of: Art in Civilization, Art Production and Art Assessment through the indepth use of line.

Line and Shape - Slide presentation and activities designed to increase awareness of line and shape as art elements.

Masterpiece Gallery - Designed to put great master works of art in the classroom, and through various guided activities and game formats, provide opportunities for students to interact and examine their beliefs about art and responses to art.

Paint. Tech.w/ Watercolors & Tempra - Activities to develop brush and color mixing skills when dealing with the elements and principles of art.

Painting with Color - Designed to help students work with colorhow to mix secondary colors, to learn color value, to paint with warm and cool colors and to recognize mood changes presented by color.

Pattern - Art projects designed for reinforcing the concept of patterns. Projects include collage, printing, clay, paper construction and fabric crayon designs.

Perspective - Methods of developing skills in drawing 3 dimensional objects on 2dimensional surfaces.

Primary Colors - Instruction, activities and games to help students identify the three primary colors.

Shape (Intermediate Grades 46) - Designed to give students and teachers the opportunity to expand on knowledge of: Art in Civilization, Art Production and Art Assessment through the indepth use of shape.

Still Life Drawing - Designed to aid the classroom teacher in the encouragement of beginning drawing activities.

Texture - Instructional materials and activities designed to increase awareness of texture as an art element.

3-Dimensional Design - Art projects are designed to introduce students to 3-dimensional work. Projects include simple cut paper constructions, clay, wire, sculpture, and found object relief.

Working w/ Primary & Secondary Colors - Instructions and activities to teach primary, secondary, and complimentary colors.

VISUAL ARTS PROCESSES

Applique, Stitchery, Embroidery - Projects in each of the three areas. Samples and directions included.

Cardboard Masks - Samples and instructions for a variety of easily constructed cardboard masks.

Cards - Instructions and examples of numerous techniques and processes which can be used to produce suitable card designs, including suggestions for folding and mounting cards and a brief introduction to writing poetry.

Cartooning - Techniques involving caricatures, graphic humor and strip comics. Also, ways to involve students in processes which stimulate imaginative thinking.

Coil Clay- Instructions and samples of projects using the coiled clay method. Tools included.

Collage - A variety of activities exploring collage as an art form.

Fibers & Weaving - Activities to expand on the knowledge of weaving.

Found Object Sculpture - Examples and instructions for eleven different sculpture projects using easily found materials.

Gadget Printing - Simple printing techniques using easily found objects. Printing samples included.

Holidays - Samples and instructions to aid teachers in planning art activities for various holidays.

Imagine! - Designed to assist the classroom teacher in fostering the imaginative abilities of students.

Intermediate Crayon - Instructions and samples of six different crayon techniques for intermediate students.

Jewelry - A unique approach to jewelrymaking using simple, easily available materials.

Lettering - Instructions and samples using lettering for decorative and functional projects.

Making Books - Extends a students original creative writing experience to formulate a bound book which may include a particular binding style, endpapers, illustrations, and an understanding of book and page format.

Mask Kit, The - Designed to increase student awareness of different cultures through study and creation of masks.

Mind's Eye: Creative Thinking- Ideas Exploring the imagination using visual arts, writing, and drama activities.

Paper and Paste - Exploration of a variety of activities using only paper and paste.

Papermaking - Designed to show the student, through examples and directions, the art of papermaking.

Papier Mâché - Provides experiences in various papier mâché techniques with emphasis on methods and ideas for decorative and functional projects.

Photography Kit - Designed to introduce students to the principles of photography through various activities utilizing a pinhole camera. The Photography kit may be used by 3rd to 12th grade students. NOTE: CHEMICALS AND PHOTO PAPER ARE NOT SUPPLIED.

Pinch Clay - Instructions and samples of simple clay projects using the pinch modeling method. Tools included.

Poster Pointers - Includes information about using the elements of art to create effective compositions for posters. Students are lead through many activities as they explore the communicative properties of posters.

Primary Crayon - The primary student is given different techniques and activities using crayons. Hand puppets, abstract figures, stenciling, crayon resists, wood blocks, and textiles are some of the lessons children will enjoy.

Printing - Designed to introduce students to printing concepts through a variety of activities.

Silkscreen Printing - Designed to illustrate, with examples and directions, various methods of silk screen printing. Some tools are included.

Slab Clay - Instructions and samples of projects using the slab clay method. Tools included.

Weaving for Beginners - Designed to introduce the concept of weaving.

Yarn & String - Activities involving the use of yarn and various types of natural synthetic fibers.