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Teaching artist Sam Jay Gold demonstrates how to craft a shadow puppet using a few simple materials, and explains how to use scale, movement, and perspective to create an amazing puppet show.

Teaching artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown explains how to create wearable sculpture—a crown, or headdress—with materials found around the house.

Teaching artist Adjoa Burrowes demonstrates how to create different colored paints using spices and food, and how to use those paints to create patterns and designs.

Teaching artist Stephanie Krause demonstrates how to find shapes in everyday objects, and then how to draw on folded-up paper to create four different pictures in one.

Teaching artist Katherine Hocker takes students through the process of creating a true-to-life illustration of a found object that inspires curiosity and wonder in the artist.

Teaching artist Ben Pawlowski takes students through the process of creating an original maze, while introducing several options for making the maze more creative and challenging.

Teaching artist Tad Sare shows students how to create their own two-way, or “lenticular,” image, which creates the optical illusion of one image turning into another.

Teaching artist Sarah Zeffiro demonstrates how to make a creative collage using geometric and organic shapes, inspiration from magazines, and markers or crayons on paper.

Teaching artist Julie Dansby explains how to make a tabletop rod puppet out of newspaper and a few other simple materials, and how to use movement to bring this puppet to life.

Teaching artist Ayrin Gharibpour demonstrates how students can make puppets based on their own family members using common materials found in their home.

Teaching artist Sam Jay Gold demonstrates how to create a rod puppet using a common object in your home and a few craft supplies.

Teaching artist Karim Nagi explains the three central moves involved in the traditional South Egyptian Raqs al-Assaya, or “stick dance.”

Teaching artist Praneetha Akula explains how to use gestures, expression, and body movements to create a classical Indian dance about a rainy day.

Teaching artists Mary Verdi-Fletcher and Sara Lawrence-Sucato demonstrate a physically integrated dance that everyone, regardless of ability, can perform.

Teaching artist Deepa Mani demonstrates how to bring facial expressions, hand gestures, and footwork together while teaching a few basic postures used in classical Indian dance.

Teaching artist Alex Gossen introduces the fundamentals of breaking and equips students with a few basic steps they can use to groove to their favorite music.

Teaching artist Erika Malone shows students how to use dance to explore their feelings, and demonstrates a choreographed dance that expresses four different emotions.

Teaching artist Marcos Napa demonstrates two different rhythmic patterns that can be played on any surface, and then leads the way through a few basic Afro-Peruvian dance steps.

Teaching artist Groovy Nate demonstrates how to create a rhythmic pattern using different names, and how to experiment with various vocal tones, pitches, and expressions to go with this rhythm.

Teaching artists Sarah Alden and Samuel Torres show students how to create a few basic bomba rhythms using items found in their homes as instruments.

Teaching artists Nondi Wontanara demonstrate the steps of a choreographed funga, a West African dance of hospitality performed to welcome visitors to one’s home.

Teaching artist Andre Avila guides students through some basic steps from bachata dance, a style of social dance from the Dominican Republic.

Teaching artist Allison Watman demonstrates the basics of juggling, starting with a simple ball toss and working up to three balls at once.

Teaching artists Keith Berger and Sharon Diskin teach some basic skills used in mime and pantomime and demonstrate two brief scenes involving the techniques learned.

In this video, teaching artist Danny Clay provides step-by-step instruction on how sounds, chance, and rhythm can come together to make an original piece of music.

Teaching artist Karim Nagi teaches students to create the Saidi rhythm common in South Egyptian music using nothing but their own voices.

Teaching artist Kiran Ahluwalia demonstrates the different elements involved in singing the classical North Indian music known as raag, and teaches how to sing an original raag song.

Teaching artist Teagan Faran demonstrates how to create a two-sentence story full of emotion using the rhythm and music of the blues.

Teaching artist Marcos Napa demonstrates two different rhythmic patterns that can be played on any surface, and then leads the way through a few basic Afro-Peruvian dance steps.

Teaching artist Zeynep Alpan demonstrates how different dynamics in music can evoke different emotions, and leads students through the process of creating different dynamics with household objects.

Teaching artist Groovy Nate demonstrates how to create a rhythmic pattern using different names, and how to experiment with various vocal tones, pitches, and expressions to go with this rhythm.

Teaching artist Sunny Jain shows students how to use their voices to create two rhythms typically played by the dhol drum in South Asian music, and how to use what they have learned to improvise their own vocal rhythm.

Teaching artists Sarah Alden and Samuel Torres show students how to create a few basic bomba rhythms using items found in their homes as instruments.

Teaching artist Deborah Magdalena demonstrates how to bring a poem to life through an expressive spoken word performance.

Teaching artist Harold “Fyütch” Simmons demonstrates how to create and perform an original, autobiographical rap using a simple template.

Teaching artist Cecilia Cackley shows how to create a tiny, magical world in the style of teatro lambe-lambe puppetry using small objects found in the home.

Teaching artist LeJuane “El’Ja” Bowens shows students how to take something they are afraid of and turn it into a creative, fictional story including characters, a setting, and a resolution.

Teaching artist Donna Washington teaches students how to use creativity, pantomime, and improvisation to play a game that is a fun twist on Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Teaching artist Armando Batista demonstrates how we can use creativity and pantomime to transform an everyday object into something completely different.

Teaching artist Meredith Heller teaches how to use the five senses to write an ode to a fruit or vegetable.

Teaching artist Donnie Welch illustrates the steps involved in creating a descriptive poem made up of sensory experiences, memories, and emotions.