How to Paint a Wooden Sign
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to paint a trendy wooden sign.
Grades: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Middle School, High School
Painting Lessons for Kids
A growing collection of painting lesson plans for preschool, elementary, middle school and high school students including lessons on how to paint with watercolour, tempera, acrylic and ink.
I Like Me Portraits
Students will create portraits of themselves after reading the book “I Like Me” by Nancy Carlson.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Impasto Painting
In this lesson, students learn about texture as they make impasto paintings.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
It’s a Bug’s Life
Students will create an original crayon resist drawing or painting of a bug’s life.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Japanese Hand Fan Craft
Students will learn about Japanese culture as they create hand fans using paper and paint.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
Kids Art Note Cards
You can recycle children’s artwork to create one of a kind note cards.
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
Kindergarten Self Portraits
Kindergarten students will learn how to draw self portraits and experiment with watercolour paints for their backgrounds.
Ages: 5-8 yrs
Grades: K-2
Levels: Primary
Landscape Resist Painting
Students will use crayons and tempera paint to create beautiful landscape paintings in the crayon resist style.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Line Painting Flowers
Students will create paintings of a flower in the style of artist Geoff Slater, using a single line that never touches or crosses itself.
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
Lines of All Kinds
Students will learn about lines as they create a colorful picture using a variety of lines.
Ages: 5-8 yrs
Grades: K-2
Levels: Primary
Make a Monet
This lesson plan teaches students about Monet and Impressionism as students are encouraged to create their own Impressionistic painting.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Make Art Like Henri Matisse
A series of art lesson plans to help your students learn how to make are like Henri Matisse.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Make Flowers
The following lesson plans will show you and your students six ways to make fantastic flowers (just in time for spring, perhaps?).
Make Mixed Media Valentine’s Day Cards
Learn how to make beautiful Valentine’s Day cards using watercolours and markers.
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
Make Your Own Prehistoric Cave Paint
Kids can make their own prehistoric cave paint using items from around the house.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Mesoamerican Codex Books
Students will use social studies learning about Ancient Mesoamericans to create a piece of historical art. Students will use visual art as a form of communication.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Milk Bubbles
Students will use milk and food coloring to make wild, fantastic milk bubbles – patterns which can be transferred to paper. Includes video.
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
Mixed Media Still Life Painting
This mixed media still life paintings art lesson is a terrific introduction to ink, watercolor and chalk pastels. It’s practically fool-proof, with results that are fun and impressive for you and your students.
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
Mouse Painting (Color Mixing)
Students will learn about color mixing after reading the book, Mouse Paint. Art is a part of everything. Literacy and art make a great marriage of the two things young children are attracted to most: stories and kinesthetic experiences.
Musical Art
By drawing or painting to music, students will learn to identify the similarities between music and art.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Natural Plant Dyes
Students will learn that plants are a source of natural plant dyes and paints. This is a good lesson to show how pioneers or early civilizations may have used plant dyes to color cloth.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Norval Morrisseau X-Ray Painting
Students will learn about artist Norval Morrisseau as they create an x-ray painting in the Eastern Woodland Style.
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
Owl Reflections
This lesson introduces students to basic printmaking concepts as well as watercolor resist techniques. Owls are the theme.
Ages: 8-11 yrs
Grades: Grades 3-5
Levels: Junior
Paint and Marker Flowers
Students will create flowers using paint and markers.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
