*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.
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
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
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
Chalk and String Designs
You can create wonderful works of art using string and chalk.
Chinese Dragon Watercolor Painting
Students will discover the world of the Chinese dragon by creating their own festive dragon watercolor painting.
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
Chuck Close Portrait Drawing
Using artist Chuck Close as inspiration, art teacher Alison Lorion shows us how to draw portraits using the grid system.
Ages: 11-14 yrs
Grades: Grades 6-8
Classic Still Life Drawing
Students will learn the classic method of drawing, on toned paper with charcoal or black pencil, heightened with white.
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
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
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
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
Complementary Color Portraits
Students will create a portrait using one pair of complementary colors.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Contour Drawing
This is a wonderful mini lesson in which children will learn how to create contour drawings.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Cow Doodles
This lesson challenges students to decorate cow cutouts in the style of great artists. Inspired by Cow Parade.
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