Colorful Row Houses (How to Draw and Paint)
Kids will learn how to draw and paint colorful houses using Kwik Stix Solid Paint sticks.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Age: 5-8 yrs
Colorful Paper Masks
Using paper and scissors and objects you find, you can make masks of all colors and kinds.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Color the Snow
Create you own winter wonderland with colorful buckets of snow.
Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: Preschool, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: ECE, Primary, Junior, Middle School
Coffee Can Drums
Drums are an important part of life and ceremony in many cultures. Here is a simple method for you and your students to create a fun sounding drum as you celebrate the cultures of the world.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Clowning Around Drawing and Painting Lesson
Students will learn how to make a clown drawing with pastel, paint or markers.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Clown Drawings
Children will learn how to draw a clown and color in their pictures completely, using markers (or the media of your choice).
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Clothespeg Dragonfly Sculpture
You can create dragonflies using wooden clothes pegs, paint (or markers) and paper.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Clay Sandcastles
Children will develop their sculpture techniques and creativity by molding and decorating their own clay sand castles.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
City Block Painting
Students will use lines of all kinds to create a painting of a city block using tempera paint.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Cave Art on Ceramic Stones
Students will create cave art in the style of the Lascaux Caves in France.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Building a Klimt
Students will study the art of Gustav Klimt. They will then create a work of art in the style of Klimt, following this step-by-step lesson.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Body Tracing Self Portraits
Students will make body tracing self portraits.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Block or Not? (Monoprinting and Stamping)
Students will use a monoprint stamp as a jumping off point for developing imagination and stimulating creativity.
Ages: 5-8 yrs
Grades: K-2
Levels: Primary
Blind Contour Drawing
Blind contour drawing is an excellent way to train the eye to draw what it really sees rather than what it thinks it sees.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Bella Butterflies
Students will review symmetry while creating crayon resist butterflies.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Bean Mosaics
Students will learn about mosaics as they create a bean mosaic using dry legumes and seeds.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Australian-Style Rhythm Sticks
You can find rhythm sticks – also called clapsticks – in cultures all over the globe. In Australia there are a special kind of clapsticks that are called bilma used to accompany the didgeridoo and also as part of a special Aboriginal corroboree ceremony.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Art from the Heart: Paint Collaboratively with Your Kids
A creative challenge for you and your kids to make art together.
Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Preschool, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: ECE, Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Architecture Shape Collage
Let your child’s imagination run wild as she creates simple structures, massive monuments, and pretty palaces.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Aloha Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bulletin Board
Incorporate the state of Hawaii and the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, into a bulletin board.
Ages: 5-8 yrs
Grades: K-2
Levels: Primary
Advanced Scribble Pictures
This lesson requires planning and problem solving, much like a math problem or science experiment. Students will see that scribbles can become much more.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
ABCs of Printmaking
An introduction to printmaking. Read this first.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
A Unique Drawing Experience
Students (and teacher) will see how with just one set of directions, everyone in the classroom will come up with very unique works of abstract art.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
A Drawing Adventure
Students will create drawings based on an imaginary journey. This is a great warm up activity or 15 minute end of class filler. It will get your students’ creative juices flowing!
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
