Teaching Themes
Art Project Ideas: Everything You Need
Help students strengthen their visual-spatial skills by working on these projects.
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Activities and Games Teaching Tip: Incorporate the ArtsGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Tips for incorporating the arts into a highschool classroom. |
 Spectacular State StudiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Creative ideas for learning about your state and its history. Includes a scavenger hunt. |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Winter HolidaysGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Bring families together with these easy projects that they can do together. Construct a dinner plate bar graph marking favorite holiday foods and... |
 Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Making Models of the Solar SystemGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Students learn the positions of the planets in the solar system as well as relative distances and sizes through modeling. |
 Lesson Plans, Book Resources The Snowy Day Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 After reading aloud The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, introduce a snowy day center with a three-step Snowy Day art project. |
Unit Plans, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources Do You See What I See?Grades: 6–8 Students learn to identify the characteristics of different painting styles. They each create a painting in one of those styles. |
The Impulse to Art: Creation Through the CenturiesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Presents a lesson in art history, and features an activity that requires students to practice perspective. |
Activities and Games Bottled MonstersGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Use this Pattern for Bottled Monsters template to put together some spooky bottled monsters decorations for your classroom. |
 Make and Give Activities Fun Holiday CraftsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Create these easy-to-make holiday decorations and crafts, including a Hanukkah mobile, Kwanzaa cards, and more! |
Send Home Activities: A Family CollageGrades: PreK–K Children and their families will engage in an art project to develop cooperation skills, language skills, and social awareness and encourage... |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: A Brown Bag of SurprisesGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, and language skills as they use different materials to create individual art projects in this... |
Activity Plan 5-6: Let's Make a MuralGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking, fine-- motor, language, and social skills as they work together to plan, design, and create a mural in... |
Activity Plan 3-4: Recycled TreasuresGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking, social-development, and language skills and an awareness of the environment in this ready-to-use teaching... |
Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Web Sitings: Virtual Art, Real LearningGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Describes how students can use the Internet to see visual representations of the topics they're studying and even create their own virtual art... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Activity Plan Mixed Ages: The Tell-Me-a-Story QuiltGrades: PreK–K Children will create a group quilt in which each square depicts a favorite book or a character from literature in this ready-To-use teaching Idea... |
Activity Plan 4-5: Dolls and DwellingsGrades: PreK–K Children will make their own dolls to foster imaginative play, explore day-to-day experiences, and expand block play in this ready-to-use teaching... |
Activity Plan 2-3: Torn-Paper CollageGrades: PreK–K In this ready-to-use teaching idea, two- and three-year olds will develop children's fine-motor skills, encourage creative thinking, and engage... |
Activity Plan 4-5: Corrugated PaintingsGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking skills as they explore the texture of corrugated cardboard in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four-... |
Activity Plan 4-5: A Drumming PartyGrades: PreK–K Children will create instruments that encourage creativity, music and rhythm awareness, and cooperative play in this ready-to-use teaching idea... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Activity Plan 4-5: Observational DrawingsGrades: PreK–K Children will create drawings of plants to develop science, observational, and communication skills in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four-... |
