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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

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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.

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Art Project Ideas

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Check out these great books at The Teacher Store.

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Mapping and Overlapping: The Importance of Collage

Grades: 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

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Articles

Image Into Motion: Creating Flip-Books

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

This fun activity introduces young students to the concept of image movement in drawings.

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Portrait/Self-Portrait

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

In this activity, students trace each other, but then draw themselves.

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Articles, Book Resources

Books and Resources for Teaching About Artists and Illustrators

Grades: 1–2

12 teacher recommendations

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Articles

Harry Potter Class Projects

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Teacher recommendations for projects using the Harry Potter book series

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? Lesson Plan

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Students read and discuss Eric Carle's classic on animal mothers and their babies before participating in two related activities.

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Activity Plan 5-6: Wind Sounds

Grades: PreK–K

Students collect branches and other materials to make the wind chimes and observe their wind chimes as a class.

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Send Home Activities: A Crazy Hat Show

Grades: PreK–K

Children will develop creativity and motor skills while participating in a crazy hat fashion show.

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Activities and Games

5 Crafty Valentine's Day Ideas

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with these crafty ideas to decorate your classroom.

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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...

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Send Home Activities: Pop Goes the Family Art!

Grades: PreK–K

Children use mirrors and art supplies to learn about similarities and differences.

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How to Create a School Art Show

Grades:

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 Plan

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Students read and discuss this fun rhyming book before participating in three related activities.

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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.

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

Activity Plan 5-6: Hopes and Dreams

Grades: 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-K

Grades: 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

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Book Resources

Make Way for Ducklings Art Lesson

Grades: 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.

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Holiday Math Crafts

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Celebrate the season with hands-on creations that build essential math skills.

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