Mary Nohl and Tokens of Appreciation
Pre-K through 5th Grade
Download the Teacher Guide
Materials can be translated into Spanish upon request.
Day One: Getting to Know Mary
- Take a tour of Mary Nohl’s Home with Site Steward and Program Director Alex Gartelmann.
- Read Mary’s Biography
- Download a Slideshow of work from Tokens of Appreciation and Mary Nohl.
- Start your own journal practice with the daily journal thinksheet age 5+ and age 10+
Day Two: What Do You Care About?
- Complete the Care thinksheet
- Watch the 2-D token workshop video
- Complete your painted token.
- Download Taylor Wright Rushing’s Care design
Day Four: Paint and Reflect
- Finish your projects.
- Complete the project reflection form for one or both artworks.
Keep Exploring!
- Listen to In Mary’s Garden by Tina and Carson Kugler and download the Literacy Link to the Arts to learn more.
- Listen to In Mary’s Garden—Spanish.
- Watch Mary Nohl: A Life’s Work—a thirteen-minute video interview with Mary Nohl.
- Explore the teacher guide to In Mary’s Garden created by the authors.
- Try the 5th Grade+ extension project (see adjacent picture for needed supplies).
- Read the Tokens of Appreciation exhibition overview and try the dance activity by Danceworks, Inc.
- Use Vanessa Andrew’s Illustrated Narrative of Care to discuss five big ideas about care.
