- Find art activities and lesson plans to help youth connect with nature. Activities include fabric collages, tile painting, bird mobiles and much more.
- Hold an art/mixed media/or photography contest or a non-competitive art showing of student art inspired by the natural world in cities. Use the same theme as any of our challenges, and take a look at entries to learn and be inspired to observe!
(Photo © Katie Yamasaki) - Could dance, theatre, or music be inspired by birds, urban nature, and conservation? Let students try!
- Have kids research and then draw birds and other urban wildlife on cardboard or heavy stock paper. Cut out the birds and then take a field trip. Have the kids place their cutouts in suitable habitat and photograph them. See full article and lesson plan by Katie Yamasaki.
- Have kids create/paint postcards inspired by urban nature and conservation. Send the postcards to the Lab of Ornithology.
- Create a mural inspired by urban nature.
- Have students create urban terrariums with city landscapes and green spaces.
- Could you create art with plants? Create a vertical garden or container gardens for the birds.
- Choose one bird and do art projects and research to learn more about it. Check out what kindergartners at the Brooklyn New School have learned about Rock Pigeons!