Introduce installations to your program. Installation is a variant of 3-D construction. Enrich it with conceptual meaning by asking your students to make an installation of a doll house or a circus.
Add "ikebana", or floral art in general, to your program. "Ikebana", or Japanese flower arrangement, develops a feeling for space and color in children.
Make constructions of matches part of your program.
Include photography in your art program. Ask students to take pictures of each other and to explain the importance of composition and the conceptual approach in each portrait.
Introduce how to work with unusual materials, such as straw. Making dolls of straw is a popular folk craft in Eastern Europe. Additionally, it is possible to use straw as a decorative material for the incrustation of wooden boxes (a sort of collage).
Strengthen your art program by offering students shells to use for embroidering (it is an ancient Indian craft). Ancient Indians used small shells with natural holes in them. For this activity, any shells can be accurately perforated.
Add to your program making decorations from beads. It will give children an idea of jewelry art and will develop their aesthetic feeling.
Give in your art program definitions of simple (spectral) and compound colors (like electric blue).
Make sure to discuss within your art program color combinations. For discussing this topic, use traditional costumes of diverse peoples reflecting their traditional color preferences. As it is said in Saga about Deirdre, Celtic folk tradition emphasizes three main colors which symbolically represent the concept of beauty: red, white and black.Compare this color combination to color combinations found in other folk traditions.
Explain within your art program main principles of color combinations; stress that one color can intensify the other one (like blue and orange).
Include into your art program an experiment which reveals how different color combinations may influence people's mood. Show, that yellow, orange, and red can irritate people, green usually makes calming effect,dark blue and grey make people feel sad. Encourage children to use optimistic color combinations in their dress and creative works.