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Art Project Ideas: Everything You Need
Help students strengthen their visual-spatial skills by working on these projects.
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Painting: Talking and Doing
Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Activity: Help students explore the world of art as both a subject to study as well as one to practice. Students can use newspapers, magazin
Lesson Plans, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources
Suspension Bridges: Connecting Lives
Grades: 6–8
Students plan, build, and test their own suspension bridges.
Art Project Ideas
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Articles Mapping and Overlapping: The Importance of CollageGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Activity: In making a collage, students can bring to it all of the questions that they consider when making a painting or a sculpture, but m |
Articles Image Into Motion: Creating Flip-BooksGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This fun activity introduces young students to the concept of image movement in drawings. |
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Articles Portrait/Self-PortraitGrades: 3–5, 6–8 In this activity, students trace each other, but then draw themselves. |
Articles, Book Resources Books and Resources for Teaching About Artists and IllustratorsGrades: 1–2 12 teacher recommendations |
 Articles Harry Potter Class ProjectsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Teacher recommendations for projects using the Harry Potter book series |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students read and discuss Eric Carle's classic on animal mothers and their babies before participating in two related activities. |
Activity Plan 5-6: Wind SoundsGrades: PreK–K Students collect branches and other materials to make the wind chimes and observe their wind chimes as a class. |
Send Home Activities: A Crazy Hat ShowGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creativity and motor skills while participating in a crazy hat fashion show. |
 Activities and Games 5 Crafty Valentine's Day IdeasGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with these crafty ideas to decorate your classroom. |
Activity Plan 4-5: Outdoor Art-ventures!Grades: PreK–K Children will explore their creativity as they observe the world outside the classroom in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four- and five-year... |
Send Home Activities: Pop Goes the Family Art!Grades: PreK–K Children use mirrors and art supplies to learn about similarities and differences. |
How to Create a School Art ShowGrades: Moore discusses an approach that offers a host of ideas that will help a teacher and the children in her program make the most of art activities... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Ice Cream Everywhere Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students read and discuss this fun rhyming book before participating in three related activities. |
Activity Plan 5-6: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!Grades: PreK–K Young scientists investigate bug body parts in this ready-to-use teaching idea for five- and six-year olds. Activity: Science. |
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Lesson Plans Who Are Artists and Illustrators?Grades: 1–2 Students identify various artisitic styles and techniques with the use of computer software. This lesson also covers aspects of art history. |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Activity Plan 5-6: Hopes and DreamsGrades: PreK–K Watch children dream up new skills in this ready-to-use teaching idea for five- and six-year olds. |
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Articles First-Day Quick Ideas for PreK-KGrades: PreK–K Expert tips for handling five personality types, from the student who's shy or in tears to the overly confident or physical child |
Book Resources Make Way for Ducklings Art LessonGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Like Robert McCloskey, children will discover that observing something up close can help them get the details just right in their own drawings.... |
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Articles All About Art, Inside and Out!Grades: PreK–K An expert discusses the importance of art in a child's social, cognitive and language development. |
Holiday Math CraftsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Celebrate the season with hands-on creations that build essential math skills. |
