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.
Students will learn about texture as they experiment with crackle patterns using paper, crayons and paint.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: Preschool, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Make your own scratch art boards using crayons.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Kids can create a crayon resist picture with nature as their inspiration.
Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs
Grades: Preschool, K-2, Grades 3-5
Students can use crayons and paint to make delightful crayon resist pictures. We used fish as our theme but you can use any image you wish.
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
Students will become aware of the illustrating style of Leo Lionni as they create a crayon resist underwater scene after reading the book, Swimmy.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Students can create spooky wax-resist pumpkin pictures using crayons and paint.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Kids will create a landscape on drawing paper, using crayons and tempera paint.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Tips for creating a storybook with your child – including writing and illustrating.
A series of simple design exercises to further understanding of the Principles of Design and how each can be developed within a structured composition.
Grades: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Middle School, High School
Ink and watercolor are used to create magical creature/monster paintings.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Students can turn their names – written in cursive – into aliens and monsters.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will create works of art inspired by artist Marc Chagall’s painting I and the Village.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
This is a free-form drawing project that deals with the elements of design – colour, line, shape, form and texture. Very wonderful detailed works of art can be achieved by simply doodling. Have a look at the works of many great artists like Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee for inspiration.
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
Students will learn about using grids to plan out proportions and symmetry as they create a step-by-step drawing of a nutcracker.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Students will draw a step by step contour drawing of elephants and then add colour and details. They will also learn about Surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
This art activity focuses on the shape of numbers. A good tie-in to math for younger students.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Students will draw pictures of jars containing bugs.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will draw the outline of a fish using glue and complete the picture with oil pastels. The glue dries clear, leaving the black paper to show through in between the pastel.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
This is a wonderful mini lesson in which children will learn how to draw hands.
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
By drawing into wet paste with chalk pastels, students can create unique works of art.
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
Students will be able to understand what is near and far in respect to the horizon line on a 2-d surface, as they draw trees.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
After looking at Edvard Munch’s famous painting, The Scream, students will create their own artwork featuring images of things that make them want to scream.
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
Students will use scroll shaped pieces of paper and colored pencils to create their own Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will read the Eric Carle book Animals, Animals. They will then identify different animals, research their chosen animals and write about their animals. This lesson incorporates social studies, science, technology, art and the writing process.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Students will learn about Expressionism as they create portraits in the style of artists like Emile Nolde, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will use a magazine photo of a person, cut in half, as the beginning of a drawing. Half magazine picture, half drawing.
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
