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.

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.

Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs

Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Levels: Junior, Middle School

Paint like Geoff Slater single line painting.

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 Variety Art Lesson Plan for Kindergarten. KinderArt.com

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

Little Green

Students will read the Leo Lionni book, Little Blue and Little Yellow. They will then follow up on the story of friendship and differences as they review color mixing.

Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs

Grades: Preschool, K-2

Levels: ECE, Primary

Make a Monet

This lesson plan teaches students about Monet and Impressionism as students are encouraged to create their own Impressionistic painting.

Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs

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.

Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs

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

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

Mondrian for Little Ones

Here’s a simple way to introduce young children to the art of Piet Mondrian.

Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs

Grades: Preschool, K-2

Levels: ECE, Primary

Mondrian Hearts

It’s Piet Mondrian… with a Valentine’s Day twist.

Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs

Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5

Levels: Primary, Junior

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.

Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs

Grades: Preschool, K-2

Levels: ECE, Primary

Musical Art

By drawing or painting to music, students will learn to identify the similarities between music and art.

Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs

Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Levels: Junior, Middle School

Name Color Wheels

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

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.

Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs

Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Levels: Junior, Middle School

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