Classroom Art Projects

This simple leaf rubbing project is a new twist on an old favorite. This leaf art takes simple materials and a few minutes to create this bold nature art!

Enjoy this Free Directed Drawing sample of a Pumpkin from the October Directed Drawing Pack! Perfect for Halloween and Fall! The collection of October Directed Drawings was created to help students in Grades K-4 be successful at drawing. They work great as a class art activity or for early finishe...

2nd Grade artists added to their knowledge of Native American Art and Culture when they looked at why certain tribes make Totem Poles, h...

5th grade artists are learning about Native American life and culture in their classrooms. We added to this by learning about their art as ...

Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary Japanese artist who has been called 'the princess of polka dots'! This set will not only help you draw pumpkins (for any art project or craft) but also add infinity nets in the background. These are perfect for your fall art lessons and make a striking patterned pumpk...

Native people living on the Great Plains depended on buffalo for survival. Discover many uses for their hides—and other parts!

I dag har jag haft genomgång om OP-konst med åk 5. Jag visade en PP som jag satt ihop för att de ska ha lite kunskap om själva begreppet och konststilen. Därefter gick jag steg för steg igenom hur …

One of my practicum students did a mixed media lesson with oil pastels and collage to create corn ears. They are only here two days a week, so I decided to change it up a little on the days I was teaching the lesson. I showed the students an image of Kandinsky's Farbstudie Quadrate. We used that as inspiration for the corn!!! I think it is kind of a fun twist on Kandinsky's work! ha ha

I've been wanting to try crayon batik for a long time. I love using a pumpkin for this project because the orange and black look so good together, and they are so easy to draw any age group can do it, plus I just plain love pumpkins! You'll need: Crayons copy paper waterproof ink/black watercolor paint brushes newspaper pencils Start by having the students draw a pumpkin that takes up most of their copy paper. Show them how to draw the curved lines across the pumpkin to give it a more 3-D…

My kids art class started off our fall schedule with a fun pumpkin zentangle. I showed them how to draw a simple dimensional pumpkin and how to layer them to create a grouping. And then they were able to fill in the spaces with different patterns. We used sharpie markers so that the ink wouldn't bleed when we added watercolors. I showed my students how to layer colors with watercolor pencils (darker colors in the creases and along edges, lighter colors in center) and then they added water to…

Here is an art project that highlights the arrival of autumn while also discovering Vincent Van Gogh and other impressionist painters. Your students will create artwork with pumpkins/squash while using superimposition. They will work in the manner of the impressionists to colour their projects. The ...

In an era of high stakes testing, art is sometimes the first thing to go but we as teachers need to find ways to continue providing art experiences for our students. Not only is art just plain fun, and let's face it, kids do need fun, but it's much more than that. Art is beneficial in so many ways! Find out ways to incorporate art in this post by The Teacher Next Door.

Earth day is one day a year but we can celebrate our amazing earth every day. Here is how you can teach your students about the environment.

Our pumpkins are really popping off the page in first grade. We looked at my finished example and saw that I painted my orange pumpkin with two colors, orange & yellow. Why? Well many of my first...

This is a very cool resist effect which I thought was suitable for Halloween art. If you don't celebrate Halloween in your school and/o...

This Glue resist art project for kids is perfect for autumn and fall. The pumpkins look amazing and it is so simple to do.