Make a mobile or collage related to jazz, using words and pictures from magazines or newspapers.
Draw a picture reflecting how a particular jazz selection makes you feel or what you see in your mind when you listen to it.
Make a mobile or collage from newspaper words reflecting the way one jazz selection makes you feel.
Instruct students to draw a jazz related comic strip of three to five panels.
Divide the class into cooperative groups to make small poster size jazz related drawings with each student contributing his/her art. Cut the drawings into pieces to create a jigsaw puzzle. Laminate the puzzle and exchange with another group or give to a lower grade to solve.
Design a decorated umbrella using fabric markers or paint.
Cooperatively make a second-line umbrella. To decorate, use a topic being studied, familiar story, a holiday or an event related theme. (Refer to instructions on "Decorated Umbrella".)
Make and decorate second-line sashes, using 3 to 4 inch bulletin board paper strips or other materials readily available.
Obtain photographs (or actual example if possible) of Mardi Gras Indians costume and identify and recreate the designs and colors used in the costume.
On paper, design a musical Mardi Gras mask, (either half mask or whole). If possible, construct the mask with cutout musical notes and symbols, feathers, paper mache or other everyday materials.
As a cooperative class project, design a miniature Mardi Gras float using jazz/music as the parade theme. Materials could include shoe boxes for the float base, toy instruments or toy parts, carnival beads, etc. Choose a jazz musician for the King/Queen float.
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