This document provides instructions for several art activities inspired by the artist Maria Catalan. The activities include making a painting using various textures of paper with glue and scissors, creating one of Maria Catalan's paintings using the scratching technique with crayons on construction paper, and decorating a cardboard box by following Maria Catalan's sample and using the scratching and paint dropping techniques. A collaborative activity is also described to paint a large mural called "the magic forest" together.