Post-VFT Art Kit (Tour Resource)
Order a FREE ready-made activity kit that allows your students to make art, explore a creative process and connect to standards. You’ll receive a class set of materials and slideshow of directions to guide your students through the making process.
Virtual Field Trips with corresponding Art Kits:
Art Around the World: Gaining STEAM with Ancient Egyptian Artifacts (6-8) and Explore Ancient Cultures: Egypt (5-9)
–> Design and create an amulet for today with air-dry clay inspired by ancient Egyptian amulets like the Amulet of Isis and Horus and the Amulet of Nehebkau.
Explore Ancient Cultures: Greece (5-9)
–> Design and create an antefix for today with air-dry clay inspired by the ancient Greek Antefix with Head of a Satyr.
Art Around the World: Discovering Día de los Muertos
–> Create paper marigold flowers for class cempasuchil or “several flowers.”
All Art Mathematicians programs (K-8)
–> Create a paper mosaic inspired by the geometric shapes of the ancient Roman mosaic.
The Stories Art Can Tell, feat. Latin American Artists (K-5)
–> Create a sun print inspired by Maria Martinez-Caña’s Traces of Nature XXII
Here’s what one Art Kit slideshow looks like:
This Google slide deck shows teachers and students the steps to making a sun print after the Stories Art Can Tell, feat Latin American Artists (K-5) program.
How to order any of the art kits described above:
Kits can be ordered when you schedule your Virtual Field Trip. 2 weeks lead time is needed to prepare and mail your classroom kit.
“Thoroughly enjoyed offering a VFT to my class, along with the hands-on component to make something afterwards, which all students love!”
– Middle School Social Studies Teacher
Virtual Field Trips are FREE, interactive experiences, live with a museum educator. Learn more and schedule your VFT here.