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Activity: Make Your Own Nature Paintbrushes

Activity: Make Your Own Nature Paintbrushes

Activities & Education
materials laid out for an art making project
5 Reasons to Take a Crystal Bridges Virtual School Field Trip

5 Reasons to Take a Crystal Bridges Virtual School Field Trip

Activities & Education
Composite image of zoom attendees
Activity: Create an Ocean Cleanup Sensory Bin

Activity: Create an Ocean Cleanup Sensory Bin

Activities & Education
waves drawn on cut out colored paper
Activity: Make a Mixed Media Collage

Activity: Make a Mixed Media Collage

Activities & Education
assembled mixed media collage
Activity: Create a Gelatin Printing Plate to Make Patterned Prints

Activity: Create a Gelatin Printing Plate to Make Patterned Prints

Activities & Education
Finished patterned prints made from gelatin printing plate
Black History Art and Book Pairings

Black History Art and Book Pairings

Activities & Education Art & Collection
(left) Jacob Lawrence, People in Other Rooms (Harlem Street Scene); (right) Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Vintage Random House
Youth Reading Recommendations for Black History Month

Youth Reading Recommendations for Black History Month

Activities & Education
Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach
Activity: Create a Mosaic Painting

Activity: Create a Mosaic Painting

Activities & Education
hands creating artwork using homemade stamp
Activity: Make A Drape Painting

Activity: Make A Drape Painting

Activities & Education
Drape painting in the style of Sam Gilliam
Activity: Make a Snowy Sensory Bin

Activity: Make a Snowy Sensory Bin

Activities & Education
Hands playing with animal figures in a bin of fake snow
Activity: Make an Abstract Collage Portrait

Activity: Make an Abstract Collage Portrait

Activities & Education
Materials needed to make a collage portrait
Winter Break Wonders Activity: Music and Art

Winter Break Wonders Activity: Music and Art

Activities & Education
Music-inspired painting
Winter Break Wonders Activity: Portrait Making

Winter Break Wonders Activity: Portrait Making

Activities & Education
Four completed handmade portraits
Virtual Winter Break Wonders

Virtual Winter Break Wonders

Activities & Education
Virtual Winter Break Wonders
Winter Break Wonders Activity: Found Object Collage

Winter Break Wonders Activity: Found Object Collage

Activities & Education
Found object collage
Winter Break Wonders Activity: Suncatchers

Winter Break Wonders Activity: Suncatchers

Activities & Education
Homemade suncatchers
Winter Break Wonders Activity: Colorful Snowflakes

Winter Break Wonders Activity: Colorful Snowflakes

Activities & Education
Paper snowflakes
Play the Crystal Bridges Version of Lotería

Play the Crystal Bridges Version of Lotería

Activities & Education
Crystal Bridges Loteria cards
Bringing Art to Youth with My Museum Kit

Bringing Art to Youth with My Museum Kit

Activities & Education
My Museum kit icon
#CBfromHome Activity: Fairy Homes and Mud Painting

#CBfromHome Activity: Fairy Homes and Mud Painting

Activities & Education
Child in garden with blooming flowers
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