Age/Grade: Elementary 2

1st-3rd Grade,
7-9 Years

Haring’s Heroes

Haring's Heroes

Elementary school students from Arkansas create a collaborative, large-scale project inspired by Keith Haring's subway art.

Stone Figurines

Stone Figurines

Sent in by a school in Germany, this class created the perfect Haring-style table settings.

Lesson Series

Lesson Series

Children from the Netherlands explore a unit on Keith Haring, including Tee-shirt stamping and collaborative, mural-sized drawings.

A Haring Holiday

A Haring Holiday

Create Haring-inspired holiday ornaments with children using this fun and easy project sent in to us by a high school in Kansas.

Friends Mural

Friends Mural

A fun and easy, project that will leave your walls full of color and energy.

Character Traits in Fables

Character Traits in Fables

Fourth and Fifth grade Special Education students wrote fables, created a subway mural, dance freeze cut outs, illustrations and sculptures of their characters, wrote a song and choreographed a dance for each character, and designed a web page of their work on the project.

A Sculptor’s Model

A Sculptor's Model

This lesson was designed to parallel The Tampa Museum's survey: "Keith Haring: Art & Commerce," on view March 18 through June 11, 2006.

Local children were presented with a slide presentation of Haring's work, with a particular emphasis on Haring's large scale steel sculptures and accompanying sculptural macquettes. Students then participated in a workshop where they too could design and construct their own scaled down models of imaginary, mythic sculptures.

A Mural Gift

A Mural Gift

5th grade students participated in a mural making activity based on the art of Keith Haring. The mural was presented to Rosemont Elementary School as a "thank you" gift for everyone at the school who as helped the 5th grade students.

Color

Keith Haring's art places a lot of impact on shape and colour. This lesson enables learners to see the imact of colour within an artwork.

A Haring Event

A Haring Event

This school in New Jersey hosted a "Dine with Your Child" afternoon, complete with Haring-inspired hallway decorations and home-made tee-shirts.