Art lesson ideas

36 Elementary Art Lessons for Kids - one for every week of the school year! Perfect for homeschool families, teachers, scout leaders, and parents!

This culture jars art lesson is a great way to showcase each individual students' celebrations, traditional food and meals, and customs.

There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different…

Looking for some more fun winter art activities for kids? This DIY Snowflake Art Project is a terrific craft for kids to enjoy creating and makes a beautiful keepsake or awesome gifts for loved ones.

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In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.

This unit focuses explicitly on Dale Chihuly: his life, his art. The artmaking pursued in this unit is inspired by one of Chihuly’s most well-known themes: the bowl.

Use our step-by-step drawing tutorial to create a unique and colorful name art project for kids. Great for upper elementary & middle school!

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

5 th grade students love looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and creating their own personalized version. Students learn abo...