Art standards include history, appreciation, and aesthetic criticism for the K-8 population. In this session, presenters demonstrate and engage participants in three methods to develop students’ abilities to observe carefully, describe, and interpret art creatively. One primary art teacher uses her puppet replicas to role-play artists in art history. Another uses movement to help elementary students observe, describe, and experience the energy in the elements of artworks. A third collaborates with older students who transform visual images into descriptive language to interpret the mood and meaning of artworks into a poem or song.