Art lessons 3rd grade

Mrs. Latimer’s Busy Brushes🎨🖌 on Instagram: “Super excited to do this lesson with my 3rd graders again—especially since it was such a hit last year! ☺️ Adding the borders next week! 🌈🥳…”

Get your students ready for SPRING with these colorful fruit slices art project tutorial! This mixed media project is great for all art students from beginners to advanced. Designed best for upper middle school, high school and homeschool grades. HOW IT WORKS:Students will draw out a series of sliced fruits using simple lines and shapes. Then they will add patches of crayola marker inside the fruit segments and use a wet paint brush to bleed the inks together. Add extra details with a white…

Counting money is such a fun skill to practice. I love all the great ideas out there on Pinterest and I’m always amazed at how excited students get when real money is involved. Here are a few ideas that can easily be mixed into your math centers for some counting money fun. I love the […]

Whenever I share a lesson on this blog before having done the lesson with my students, I always like to share a follow-up post. Cuz, you know, lessons don't always go as we think they will. Or maybe the kids don't respond as excitedly as you'd hoped. Well, thankfully, neither was the case with this Dean Russo-Inspired Colorful Tiger lesson. My students LOVED it, they were so stinkin' proud of themselves and I was just beyond thrilled to share them with y'all! In case you missed the details…

Sarah on Instagram: "So proud of these students and can’t believe how focused and in the zone they were today! Good job 3rd grade! #elementaryart #elementaryartteacher #artteachersofinstagram #reggielaurent #organicshapes #geometricshapes #collageartlesson"

Engage kids in art projects in a variety of media, with many based on famous artists or art movements.

3rd Grade's Elementary Art curriculum of world cultures allowed me to "travel" with them to Australia to learn about the country and create some Australian Aboriginal Dot Art! This project came from the ever brilliant Mrs. Nguyen over at her blog. I Can statements: I Can tell you something about Australia. I Can create an artwork in the style of Aboriginal Dot Art. As i've mentioned in other 3rd grade "travels" my goal is to give my students the biggest picture of a culture or country as I…

Hi! One day when I was sick I left a sub lesson plan for my students to design their own tree houses. I printed out examples of tree house drawings for inspiration, like these here and here. There is also this resource by Art Sub Lessons which has many pictures of real tree houses for inspiration. I did not leave a lot of directions or specific requirements, but encouraged creative thinking and unusual designs. Here are some of our whimsical pictures. I think … Read more... →