Art lesson ideas

Teach children art history through a variety of fun art projects and lessons. We love using artists as inspiration for our own creations.

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.

Introduce elementary art students to Monet with this set of art lessons ending in a unique water lilies Claude Monet art project.

Grade Level Duration 4 classes, 80 minutes Materials Graph paper (buy or make your own online here), acrylic Paint, ghost grid posterboard (Poster board featuring a faint, disappearing grid), square dowel cut down to make a stamp (same size as the grids on the poster board), printer, pencil, palette Media Acrylic Paint Lesson Objectives For […]

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

After nearly a decade of teaching secondary students, I've had a lot of time to test out a variety of 2d art projects. Let's face it: as teachers, sometimes we plan and plan and plan. We are so excited to deliver the project, and then... it flops. Students are uninterested and the final products aren't

school auction art a lot of times can be very corny, or something you may not actually want to bid on / hang in your house. if you're in charge of doing the auction art for your kids classroom this year, here is a post of beautiful projects that fellow parents would actually want and bid on!

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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…