Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Draw a Monarch

For Students 6th - 12th
Five steps walk scholars through the process of drawing a Monarch butterfly. Participants research the insect, make observations, trace, then color. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Coloring Squares - Write the Word

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Let's learn about squares. Youngsters complete this coloring worksheet with multiple objectives including printing practice, spelling, shapes, and colors. First, they trace the word green. Pupils color all the squares in a string of...
Worksheet
Woo! Jr. Kids

Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Page with Snoopy

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Pay homage to the classic movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and encourage holiday cheer with a coloring page featuring Charlie standing near the iconic drooping Christmas tree and Snoopy on top of his decorated doghouse. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering the Element of Color in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale: A Comparison of Tone Color and Art Color

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience several different tone colors in the song and also add layers of color to their copy of "The Owl" to compare and contrast how an artist would create the element of color.
App
Software Smoothie

Imagination Box - Colors, Shapes, Numbers and Letters

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
This app provides young learners with opportunities to be creative while they work with different colors, letters, numbers, and shapes. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shoes and the Backyard Landscape

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Your shoes get a lot of mileage in familiar places. Represent the places you have traveled the most with an art project based on a print of Indian People Wear Shoes and Socks by Juane Quick-to-See Smith. Kids trace their shoes and...
Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: What's for Dinner?

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
This creative project may make your young programmers hungry as they practice their Java Script coding. The task is fairly open ended: add shapes using different shape functions, including the fill and stroke functions to add color and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting

For Teachers K
Students examine the painting, "Sunflowers," by Vincent van Gogh noting the use of the yellow color, the wiggly lines, and the "globs" of paint used to create the picture. Pictures are painted using van Gogh's image as a model.
Activity
Exploratorium

Bird in the Cage

For Teachers 5th - 9th
When your life science class is learning about the eye and how it works, you can add this activity as a demonstration of how the retina holds an afterimage. After staring at a red, green, or blue bird shape, pupils glance at a cage and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Elements of Art Through Photography

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders photograph examples of the five elements of art: line, shape, color, pattern, and composition.
Activity
Getting to Know

Shape and Form in Art

For Teachers K - 4th
Introduce youngsters to the important role shape and form play in art with this extensive collection of activities and projects. From teaching first graders how to create mandalas to engaging third and fourth graders in the design...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words: Fox and Socks

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
What rhymes with the word fox? Actually there are quite a few words that contain the short o vowel sound and rhyme with fox. Pre-readers find, color, and circle the objects in the picture that rhyme with the sly looking fox. They also...
Organizer
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Student Handouts

Compare and Contrast Chart with Bubble Map

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Take your traditional Venn diagrams and mind maps to the next level with this unique bubble map! The graphic organizer allows students to compare and contrast several aspects of two concepts, encouraging a more in-depth analysis...
Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Canada

My Treehouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The lesson touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Learn the Color Orange

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood color recognition and handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the word orange by tracing the word and then writing the word on their own. In addition, students draw something orange.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Learn the Color Brown

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood color recognition and handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the word brown by tracing the word and then writing the word on their own. In addition, students draw something brown.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Learn the Color Pink

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood color recognition and handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the word pink by tracing the word and then writing the word on their own. In addition, students draw something pink.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Learn the Color Blue

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood color recognition and handwriting worksheet, students practice writing the word blue by tracing the word and then writing the word on their own. In addition, students draw something blue.
Activity
It's About Time

Color

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How can a hand puppet's shadow look like a dog? The lesson explains the science behind shadows, combining paint colors and the colors used in old televisions. Scholars use white, red, blue, and green lights to experiment with colors...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seeing Feelings

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create pencil drawings of assigned items and then, study painting by Vincent Van Gogh. They discuss how different colors make them feel and are then assigned a mood to express by adding color to their line drawing.
Worksheet
Woo! Jr. Kids

Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Pages with the Peanuts Gang

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Spread holiday cheer with a coloring page that features the Peanuts Gang singing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing around a decorated Christmas tree—a scene from the movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas. 
Worksheet
Woo! Jr. Kids

Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Coloring Page with Snoopy, Lucy and Linus

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Spark joy and holiday cheer with a coloring page featuring characters from the movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas Charlie, dancing around a Christmas tree.