Lesson Plans

Learn about illustrator and artist Maginel Wright Enright, the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, and use her art as inspiration for your own Felt Collage or Yarn Art.

Create a class quilt inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and his love of the earth. This lesson teaches students about how fruits and vegetables grow and examines how community gardens can help address childhood hunger.

Students model the shapes of Wright’s iconic designs through movement.

Learn how stained glass is made and create your own art glass-inspired collage with a personal message about your values and personal passions.

Think big and work together to create an original art glass-inspired design on the gymnasium floor at your school.

Analyze the geometry in Wright’s stained glass. Use tracing paper to create Wright-inspired window designs.

Design your own “unplugged” playroom inspired by the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the legacy of Friedrich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten.

Learn how Wright included the sun in his designs through natural light and passive solar heating. Create sun prints using natural materials.

Identify causes and effects in Wright’s life using Rosenstock and Neal’s Prairie Boy. Sketch a design for a unique home.

Explore the idea of abstract art in this matching game lesson. Using Frank Lloyd Wright’s work as a springboard, work together to match abstracted works of art to their real-life inspirations.

Model yoga poses to represent shapes, much like the geometric drawings of nature created by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Experiment with opaque, transparent, and translucent materials to create an original work of art.