VISUAL ARTS & AFTER SCHOOL
Supporting Creativity Beyond the Classroom

This "After-school" and "In-School" resource guide includes eighteen lessons that engage children in creating and learning in After-school programs. Childen will learn how to create scrolls with sequence drawings similar to what they see in comic-strips that contain settings, characters and events from their readings. This lesson will excite and encourage budding young authors and illustrators. Additionally, other lessons in the guide will help educators teach children how to explore and find delight as they imagine and design creatures around characteristics they discover in real animals or creatures from fantasy.

• Generously illustrated with children's artwork
• Contains complete instructions for hands-on projects for After-School and Community-based programming
• Includes material and reading lists, tips, and estimated class time
• Lessons are designed to contribute to improving critical thinking, problem posing, problem solving and decision making learning in K-6th grade children
• Contains information about prospecting for funds to support After-school programs
• Identifies After-school resources for program leaders
• 48 full-color pages, softcover

Remarks from teachers who tested the lessons in Supporting Creativity Beyond the Classroom:
"Students related to the simple style of Jacob Lawrence's art. The messages in the Great Migration Series had an impact on the children I have not seen in regular classes all year. Giving students an opportunity to create art in the style of Lawrence in this Dream-makers lesson allowed them to relate to a culture and time that helped promote tolerance in their own culture and in the present time. You know what I mean. Any time these kids can 'put themselves in the shoes of others' helps them know 'we are all in this together."-Mary Copeland, Art Teacher, Riverside Middle School, Fort Worth, Texas

"We went on the internet to find examples of mosaics, and the children were surprised to find a number of examples of mosaics in our building! We talked about the city where we all live and the things that describe our city. Their responses were great, but it was their drawings that really amazed me and even them."-Joanne O'Connor NJ After 3 - Cold Springs School, Gloucester City, New Jersey

"It is the end of the first year of NJ After 3 and it was a great year for our staff and families at the Paterson YMCA. The Dream-Makers lessons were definitely a highlight to our year and I wanted to thank you. The children really demonstrated creativity and worked hard."-Ron Cope NJ After 3 at Paterson YMCA Paterson, New Jersey