Natural Arts Exploration

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Create a Mushroom Library

Grow mushrooms in old books!

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Aluminum Foil Sculpture

Sculpting with aluminum foil is easy and a class favorite.

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A Magical Bird Needs a Nest

A magical bird needs a nest! A fun way to engage NGSS-DCI or VAPS outcomes.

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Your outfit is your palette!

Creating a painting with a pallette based on your outfit.

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Permeable Watersheds

Animating a series of paintings to express how water connects everything,

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A Plant Color Library

A library of color derived from plant pigments for the Huntington Botanical Gardens.

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Rain-ting

Experiment with how water affects color by painting on wet paper and leaving it out in the rain.