*Op Art Shaded Shapes
Students learn about “Op Art” and then create a picture (optical illusions) that can play tricks with the eyes.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Drawing Lessons for Kids
Drawing is one of the most important activities you and your students can do. Drawing not only provides the basis for other creative activities – like painting, sculpture and printmaking – but it also provides a direct link with reading, writing and especially mathematics. Drawing is the single most accessible form of art available. All you need (to begin with), is a pencil and a sheet of paper.
5 Creative Activities for Kids
Here are fun crafts to boost creativity at camp or when kids are home from school.
6 Fantastic Drawing Exercises
The following drawing lessons and exercises are a great way to introduce your students to the magic of drawing.
A Box of Crayons
Inspired by the book “The Crayon Box That Talked“, this lesson will show children that when we all work together, the results are much more interesting and colorful.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
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
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
About Zentangles
What is Zentangling and how can it help you teach art? A Zentangle is a miniature abstract work of art created by a collection of patterns.
Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Junior, Middle School, High School
Adjective, Adjective Noun
This lesson encourages drawing skills, imagination, and a sense of humor. Students will also learn about adjectives and nouns.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
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
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
Artists Who Experimented with Colour
The following Art History lesson plans will introduce you and your students to five fantastic artists who spent a good amount of time experimenting with colour.
Basic Shapes
This is a wonderful mini lesson in which children will create works of art using basic shapes.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Bella Butterflies
Crayon resist butterflies are colorful and bright. Students will review symmetry while creating these works of art.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Bird’s Eye View Dandelions
Students will create a bird’s eye view drawing of dandelions using paper and oil pastels.
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
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
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
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
Imagine the freedom of done-for-you art lessons.
The KinderArt Club features standards-based art lessons which are designed to work in small or large group settings, with a range of ages (from 5 to 11 years). So, you don’t need to plan multiple activities, regardless of the grades you teach.
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