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New Year's Hat
Students create New Year's Eve hats in this fun and safe art project for the elementary classroom. The activity is ideal for a pre-Holiday Break activity or can be adapted to celebrate any holiday or special occasion in the classroom.
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Clues and Choose Beginnings
In this art worksheet, learners look at the dinosaur pictures and draw on them according to the directions. Students follow 4 sets of directions.
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Instruments of the Orchestra- Flute and Oboe
Students name the different families in an orchestra, name many of the instruments in each family, listen to an orchestral recording to identify the flute and oboe and listen to the melody of a piece.
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Night and Day
Students will learn that the time of day and weather in an outdoor setting will affect one's perception of color by creating two impressionistic paintings showing two different times of day using the Blending Mode feature in Photoshop.
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Drawing Funny Fish and Sharks
In this artistic related worksheet, students practice drawing various different kinds of fish and sharks on how they think they would look just by their names.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces--3
In this music worksheet, students label notes in the bass clef lines and spaces with the correct letter names. There are no examples on the page; prior knowledge is assumed.
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Spider and Fly Maze
For this maze puzzle worksheet, students show hand eye coordination and problem solving skills by tracing a path from the fly to the edge of the web, avoiding the spider.
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Percussion Fast and Cheap
Students explore percussion. In this percussion lesson, students examine body percussion, drumstick percussion, beaters percussion, drum percussion, stick percussion, washboard percussion, and shaker percussion by using...
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Folding and Cutting a Snowflake
In this snowflake activity, students fold and cut a snowflake by following the directions given. Students follow 10 sets of directions.
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Pansy and Dandelion Coloring
For this coloring worksheet, students color a picture of a pansy and a dandelion. Students color 2 big flowers total on this worksheet.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces - 1
In this treble clef lines and spaces worksheet, young scholars read the sheet music and identify the letter names of the notes that are missing as they fill in 35 blank spaces.
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Man and Women Looking at Pictures
In this man and woman worksheet, students color pictures of a man and a woman putting a picture on a table. Students color 2 pictures.
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Seashell Painting
Let nature inspire your budding artists. They paint seascapes on actual seashells. First, they observe the seaside, then they paint what they see (image or in person) on the inside of a white shell.
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Moving to a Path Map
Students accurately demonstrate non-locomotor/axial movements such as bend, twist, stretch, swing. They accurately demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements.
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Fill a Jar
Sometimes short lesson outlines are enough to give you a great idea. Young writers draw any object inside an image of a jar, that doesn't belong in a jar. They can draw a tree, truck, or dinosaur. Tip: Have kids write a short story...
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Forms in Architecture
Students explore shapes and forms in architecture. This lesson also introduce students to the concepts of form and function in architecture. They take an architectural tour (on foot or with visuals) to identify forms and shapes.
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Images of Children in Dorthea Lange's Photographs
Learners research the photographs of Dorthea Lange. In this visual art lesson, students look at photographs of children taken by Lange and answer several questions. They write or tell stories to explain what they think is occurring in...
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An American Scene Painter
Students study the work of American scene painter Charles Burchfield. In this visual arts lesson, students research the nature paintings of Burchfield and then paint their own watercolor scenes in his style.
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Keith Haring & Social Awareness
Students view four sections of one of Haring's paintings. They describe the people and characters they see. Students participate in a variety of classroom art activities such as: Making a treasure box modeled after Keith Haring's work,...
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Harriet Tubman
Students detect specific characteristics in the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. In this collage lesson, students utilize the style of Jacob Lawrence to create works about Harriet Tubman and her life.
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Puppetry
Students explore puppetry. In this puppetry lesson, students research the history and culture of puppets. Student begin to understand that art work has special characteristics. Students create their own marionette puppet.
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19th Century Chandelier
Young scholars discuss the lines, shapes, and patterns used to decorate a 19th century chandelier. For this visual arts lesson, students examine the lines and identify the patterns on the chandelier. Young scholars create a papier-mache...
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Color in Paintings
Students examine the color in paintings. In this visual arts lesson, students explore the 1821 painting by Jacques-Louis David and identify the colors in the art piece. Students write an original fairy tale and create an illustration...