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Toilet Paper Tube Snowman
Young scholars create "toilet paper tube" snowmen using toilet paper rolls, paints, pipecleaners, construtcion paper, wiggly eyes, and markers in this winter-time activity. The lesson is intended for the early elementary classroom.
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Clowning Around: Drawing
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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Mother's Day Gift
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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Pop Up Card
Young scholars design and create pop-up greeting cards for a special occasion in this art lesson for Kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms. The lesson includes resource links for pop-up "arm" ideas and can be accomplished in one day.
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Sunset Silhouettes
Students create "SUNSET SILHOUETTES" using primary colors, black construction paper, and glue in this elementary-level Art lesson. The lesson extension included with this lesson involves creating a nativity scene and might be...
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Whimsical Wooden Santa
Students create wooden Santas using small blocks of wood, paint, holiday materials, doll hair, glue, and berry leaves in this Holiday art lesson plan for the elementary classroom. The lesson plan includes resource links and a finished...
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Triangle Angel
Students create triangular angels in this winter-time lesson for the early elementary classroom. Materials include poster paper, scissors, glue, markers, cotton balls, yarn, and glitter. A fun and simple way for younger children to...
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Adorable Snow Folks
Students create "Snow Folks" using children's mittens, rice, wooden balls, and various art materials in this Art lesson for grades Four and up. The lesson includes picture examples and suggestions for successful implementation of the...
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Wiggly Spiders
Learners create "wiggly spiders" using black paint, construction paper, yarn, and their hands in this fun, messy, art lesson for the early elementary classroom. An ideal lesson for the Halloween holiday or for a lesson/unit on spiders.
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Clay Pot Santa And Mrs. Claus
Students create clay replicas of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus in this early-elementary Art activity for the holiday season. Directions are included for both Mrs. Claus and Santa. The activity also includes links for more art activities...
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Bingo Dabber Pictures
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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Icy Sun Catcher
Students fill the tray half full with water. In this art lesson, students lay the string in the tray and add little bits of little items. Students lay the tray outdoors on a cold winter night so that the water freezes. What is frozen...
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Pepper Shamrock Prints
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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Wall Paper and Paint Mosaic
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 large...
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Cow Parade
Young scholars create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious lesson ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The lesson includes resource links and can be adapted for any animal or...
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When is a Block, not a Block?
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Light Bulb Santa
Students create light bulb Santa's using old light bulbs, acrylic paints, ribbon, and cords in this art instructional activity for the second through eighth grade classroom. This is a great activity to do before winter break. A picture...
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Rice Wreaths
Students create rice and glue holiday wreaths in this Art lesson ideal for the 1st or 2nd grade. The lesson can be adapted for older or younger students and includes an ingredient list and step-by-step directions for siccessful...
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Hide the Acorns
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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Potato Head
Students create a potato looking object. In this art lesson, students decorate hamster bedding with a face making it look like the potato. Students water the object causing the grass to grow making it look like hair.
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Valentine Hat
Students create a valentine hat out of red construction paper and a paper towel tube. In this art lesson, students create a hat out of strips of red construction paper attached to the paper towel tube. Students glue hearts on the hat as...
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Torn Paper Snowman Pictures
Students create snowmen pictures. In this art lesson, students tear paper and glue the torn paper onto a piece of blue paper making a snowman.
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Fun in the Sun
Students freeze colored water. In this art lesson, students take the blocks of ice out of the freezer, put the blocks into a small pool and watch the ice melt.