Classroom Art Projects

Earlier this year we introduced you to the Xianghai Middle School art club in northeast China and their summer mural project (check out our story, Crane Art Six Meters Long...Brings Students Together). The Xianghai students worked with artist Val DuBasky, founder of Art in a Box, to design and create the mural. Art in a Box has recently introduced their Young People's Online Gallery, which showcases artwork from the Xianghai students and other students that they work with throughout the world. Click on the following links to view the Three White Cranes artwork in the gallery:

Xianghai Middle School mural project

Chinese and Russian student notecard project
These notecards were created by students from the Xianghai Nature Reserve and Muraviovka Park in southeastern Russia. You may purchase a set of six notecards featuring this artwork through the ICF Gift Shop.

Chinese student field guide project
This artwork was created by students during the 2008 summer environmental camp at the Keerqin Nature Reserve in Inner Mongolia, China.

We hope that after viewing this online art that you and your students are inspired to design your own classroom mural or wetland art project. To get you started, click on the link below to download a template for creating your own Siberian Crane flock. Each sheet is designed to make two Siberian Cranes. To create the cranes, simply make copies of the template and cut out the five pieces for each crane. The two sides for the cranes' body and legs can be glued or stapled together. Note that for younger students we recommend adding a quarter inch of white space around the legs before they cut out these sections.

This paper crane template was designed by the Iranian National Coordination Unit of the UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetland Project (SCWP), an international project to conserve the Siberian Crane flyways in Eurasia.

Siberian_Crane_template.pdf