Teaching Themes
Art Project Ideas: Everything You Need
Help students strengthen their visual-spatial skills by working on these projects.
All About Art Inside and Out!Grades: PreK–K Feinburg discusses the importance of art in a child's social, cognitive and language development. For more information, see the related sub-... |
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! |
Let's Get Messy!Grades: When the warm weather hits, head outdoors and try one of these creative art projects. |
Send Home Activities: A Crazy Hat ShowGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creativity and motor skills, in a crazy hat fashion show for mixed ages. Activity: Visual Arts. |
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... |
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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Activity Plan 3-4: Still Life ArtistsGrades: PreK–K Children will use the works of famous painters to engage children to learn and develop their own creative skills in this ready-to-use teaching... |
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... |
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Articles Image Into Motion: Creating Flip-BooksGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Activity: While art forms such as film and video may seem beyond the reach of young students, there are some simple ways to introduce moveme |
Articles Portrait/Self-PortraitGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Activity: If a portrait is a picture of someone else, and a self-portrait is one of ourselves, this activity combines both. Students trace e |
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. |
 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. |
Activity Plan 4-5: Art StudioGrades: PreK–K Children will create their own sculptures out of Styrofoam pieces in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four- and five-year olds. Activity: Art... |
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. |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Ice Cream Everywhere Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 It's in a dish; it's in your hair! Watch out! Ice cream's everywhere! Rhyming text describes different ways of eating ice cream and how to clean... |
Lesson Plans Who are Artists and Illustrators?Grades: 1–2 Have students identify various artisitic styles and techniques and emmulate their favorites with the use of computer software. This lesson also... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Eric Carle's gorgeous collage illustrations and playful text encourage children to learn about animal mothers and their babies. Children will... |
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.... |
