Family
Families often enjoy passing on stories about life in earlier times. Help your students preserve these family "myths." Have students ask older family members the Fabled Family Members questions. Their goal is to discover hidden family heroes. Ask them to write or tell and illustrate a family hero's story.

Language Arts
Ask children who else they think should be included in Andy Warhol's Myths Series. If he were doing the Myths Series today, who do you think he would choose as myths or heroes. Use the Myth for Me to create your own myth.

Use a similar approach and ask your students what familiar, everyday images they would like to make people take a closer look at? Why? What is important about the object or the idea it represents?

Use Warhol's -- or your own style -- to make people look differently at your object. Use some pop art tricks. (Would you use shocking colors? Would you focus on a particular part of your subject? Would you repeat certain lines?)

Communications and Journalism
Andy Warhol was a self-appointed documenter of his culture. He kept newspaper clippings of people and events he found interesting. Create your own newsy time capsule. Ask students to write a sentence for each clipping to explain why they find it significant. Open the capsule at the end of the year or when your students graduate from your school. Learn more about it from our collection >>

History
Create a funky '60s corner in your room for students to dress-up in the styles worn by their parents and grandparents. Collect attic or thrift store finds. How are the fashions different or the same compared to clothing worn today? Ask children to bring in pictures from their families. Can they identify the era? Can they group the pictures into different eras of fashion? Learn more about it from our collection >>

Social Studies
Compare myths from other cultures that are similar. For instance, most cultures have a benevolent, mythical character who gives gifts to children. How does the American Santa Claus compare or differ from Europe's St. Nicholas? Can you find similar legends in other cultures? Learn more about it from our collection >>

Science and Technology
If Andy Warhol were alive today, what new areas of art would he explore? Most likely he would be interested in computer-generated art. Experiment with your school computer to create art using desktop drawing programs.

Video and Photography
"In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes," are the exact words Warhol used in an exhibit catalog in the early '60s. Ask students to explain what he meant? Do they agree? Set up a video camera where kids can have their own one-minute screen tests. A monitor will allow them to see themselves on TV. Interview each other. Why and how will your students be famous?

Make Your Own Warhol
Andy Warhol took Polaroid pictures of his friends. Sometimes he worked from these pictures to create art. Try it! Take pictures of each other using an instant camera. Make black-and-white copies on your school copier. Color or paint these prints in the style of Warhol, using simple lines and bright colors. Try repeating the shapes. How does seeing more than one of something change the way you look at it? Display your portraits in rows, or blocks of prints.