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New Year's Hat

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create New Year's Eve hats in this fun and safe art project for the elementary classroom. The lesson 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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Japanese New Year

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the celebrations around the Japanese New Year. After watching a video, they discuss and answer the questions given to them on a worksheet. As a class, they practice pronouncing common sayings in Japanese and create an...
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Chinese New Year: Lai-See Envelopes Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the purpose behind the Chinese New Year celebration. As a class, they examine different traditions focusing on the Lai-See envelopes. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, they make their own envelopes...
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Chinese New Year: Paper Lanterns Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine a typical Chinese New Year celebration. As a class, they identify the traditions and values used and discuss how they are unique to China. To end the instructional activity, they take measurements to make their...
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New Year's Resolution Flags

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students make New Year's Resolutions. In this resolution instructional activity, students listen to the story Peace Begins with You by Katherine Sholes. They discuss different ways they can help make their world more peaceful and...
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Chinese Dragon Puppet

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discover the importance of the dragon in Chinese culture. Using a template, they make their own dragon hand puppet and color it with watercolor paints. To end the lesson, they read stories about dragons and their role in the...
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Customs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore Chinese New Year. In this Chinese culture lesson, students read associated literature and use worksheets to explore aspects of the Chinese New Year. Students complete this lesson by making and hanging paper lanterns,...
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Memory Book

For Teachers K - 1st
Young writers create memory books. They think of important events in their lives from the past year. Then they draw pictures that depict these events, and dictate captions to an adult who writes them down in their books for them. These...
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Confetti Eggs

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a confetti filled egg. In this art lesson students use multiple steps to decorate and fill an egg. The result is an egg that has been hollowed, filled with confetti, and has a decorated shell. The students break them open...
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I'm Still Scared: The War Years

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read the story I'm Still Scared: The War Years, complete discussion questions, and activities about the book. In this war book lesson plan, students keep journals, write about being frightened, have a war veteran visit their...
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The Real Eve

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research about human migration during a specific time period. In this physical science instructional activity, students watch a video about human evolution. They prepare a presentation on human migration and share it with the...
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Get to Know You Game

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a game to get to know their classmates. In this getting to know you lesson, students use the tags with sentence starters to get to know their classmates. Students fill out the tags and walk around to learn...
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Colored Glue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice creating colors. In this visual arts lesson, students use glue and food coloring to create new color combinations. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Mother's Day Gift

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a Mother's Day gift. In this holiday art lesson, students use construction paper, glue, a photo, and an included poem to create an artistic Mother's Day gift. Students print out the poem and and place a picture of...
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Spring Bulletin Board

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a Spring bulletin board. Students color and cut out frogs and attach them to pipe cleaners. The frogs then bounce and move. Students discuss frogs and how tadpoles become frogs.
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Valentines Wreaths

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students cut different sizes of hearts out of red and pink paper. In this art lesson, students create a valentine wreath by cutting the middle out of a paper plate and gluing the heart shapes to the plate. Students make bows out of yarn...
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Clowning Around: Drawing

For Teachers K - 1st
Kids create a clown out of shapes. They work to show emotions while practicing their drawing skills. Pupils use circles, triangles, squares, oil pastels, and their imagination to draw, color, and decorate a sad or happy clown. Tip: Have...
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Bingo Dabber Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make dot pictures using bingo marker dabbers. In this art lesson, students enjoy making dots and creating pictures out of the dots.
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Bubble Art

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students add color to the bubbles. In this art lesson, students lightly blow the bubbles onto the paper and then the paper dries. Students enjoy making an easy art project.
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Garden Starters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students grow their own gardens. In this planting lesson, students use egg cartons to start their own gardens by planting and caring for seeds. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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Ice Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students melt colored ice cubes which are created from a funnel, balloons, water, and food coloring. In this ice lesson plan, students put food coloring into water in a balloon, freeze it, and see how the food coloring ended up making...
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Pepper Shamrock Prints

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students print paper using green paint. In this art lesson, students dip open halves of bell peppers in green paint and make prints that resemble shamrocks. Students use their imagination and decorate the paper for St. Patrick's Day.
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Sand Table Fillers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play with different textures in the sand box or large bin. In this sand table lesson plan, students play with sand, corn soy beans, scoops, spoons, cars, and more.
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Wall Paper and Paint Mosaic

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a wall mosaic. In this art activity, students post one large piece of butcher paper on a wall. Pieces of construction paper are torn into small squares. These small squares are dipped in the paint and put on the...

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