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.
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
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
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
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
The following lesson plans will show you and your students six ways to make fantastic flowers (just in time for spring, perhaps?).
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
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
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
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
It’s Piet Mondrian… with a Valentine’s Day twist.
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5
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.
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
Art teacher Dan shares a unique way for children to create a color wheel, using their own names.
Ages: 8-11 yrs
Grades: Grades 3-5
Levels: Junior
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
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
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
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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