+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Preschool Coloring Page - Alligator

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this preschool coloring page activity, students use crayons or markers to color a blackline master sheet of an alligator.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inquiry Lesson About Color

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the color choices artists make in their work, and to practice the scientific process of predicting, observing, inferring, and interpreting. This activity's purpose is to prepare students for a museum visit.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Favorite Rainbow Color

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this colors worksheet, students examine a collage of many flowers of different colors. Students tell what their favorite rainbow color is and then circle the flowers that are in their favorite color. The worksheet will need to be...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Color Mixing/ Fantastic Shapes in Paining

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils paint shapes in pictures using all of the colors in the color wheel. In this colors lesson plan, students learn about primary and secondary colors, and create non representational art with the colors.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Now You See Me, Now You Don't

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Bioluminescence fascinates most upper elementary scientists. Display images of different glowing deep-sea organisms and discuss their environment. Young biologists then experiment with images and different colors of filtered light. In...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advanced Scribble Pictures

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Scribble art allows learners of any age to problem solve in order to express their creative thinking skills. They create a simple scribble, then elaborate on it by adding color and shape. Full instructions and extensions are included. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Glue Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Get out the glue and those oil pastels its time for an art project. The class explores shape, art, and color as they draw fish with glue, let them dry, and then color them as they wish. This project would be wonderful after discussing...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Symmetrical Design: Pennsylvania Barn Signs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain and apply the visual arts elements and the design principle of symmetry and apply media, techniques, and processes. In addition, they describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different...
+
Lesson Plan
Art Institute of Chicago

Act It Out

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Examine two works of art and use these pieces as inspiration for dialogues. The whole class discusses Renoir's Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise and Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge. Then, in groups of either three or ten, pupils...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monochromatic Painting

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners create a piece of monochromatic art. In this monochromatic art lesson, students design a piece of art and analyze their painting objectively. Learners connect color and emotions.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Logo Design Basics: Your Name Here

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars become familiar with the fundamentals of graphic design to develop a logo. In this logo design lesson, students generate their own two logos using their own name and a personal hobby as inspiration. Young scholars select...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning about Tint and Shade- Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore tint, hues, and shades of color. For this art and color lesson, students observe and discuss Van Gogh's artistic style. Young scholars mix paints to create a single hue background and add details to paint a...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Signs

For Students 2nd
In this signs instructional activity, 2nd graders look at a castle picture, find the signs in the picture that have the same shape and size and color each pair of signs the same color.
+
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Art and Visual Aids in Literature Classes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Incorporating visual art into your literature lessons will "add color" to your program.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating AB Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students work with patterns. In this pattern lesson, students find AB patterns in nature and the manmade world. They create their own AB pattern using math manipulatives and visual arts. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

On the Seashore

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read the book On the Seashore and complete activities such as reading a book, color and cut out animal cards, model rock making, shell graphing, shell patterns, and more. For this seashell lesson plan, students use the sea...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Visual Art - Creating a Clay Pinch Pot

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders inspect various clay pots. They create their own pots and paint them in the horror vacui design.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the Pictures

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Uncover the hidden pictures. There are two sets of shapes here, and each has a CVC word inside. Beginning readers follow directions by coloring all the shapes with words that rhyme with a given sound (in for the first and ug for the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Figurative Slot Sculptures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create 3-dimensional works of art in the form of slot sculptures. I love this instructional activity, because it exposes learners to a completely different form of art. Everything you need to do to successfully-implement...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: The Self in the Other's Image: Portraiture and Identity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Art, identity, and an imaginary community, three components that should make for an interesting lesson. Critical thinkers explore and evaluate the work of contemporary artist, Elizabeth Peyton. They discuss her use of subject and art to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Colored Pencil Repoussé

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Artists employ a basic metalworking technique by embossing lines and textures into a soft metal. They look for examples of embossed metals in historical and contemporary examples. This fascinating process has been used by many cultures...
+
Lesson Plan
Dick Blick Art Materials

No-Fire Nouveau Tiles

For Teachers K - 12th
Kiln-glazed ceramics not an option? Kids can create their own art nouveau tiles using ceramic bisque tiles. The packet includes a video to prepare and inspire your artists, as well as detailed directions for various age groups, a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Glimmer of Beauty: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Fully analyze the elements of art and unexpected beauty in the William Merritt Chase's Still Life with a Fish. The class will examine the painting very closely, then use photography to express unexpected beauty in still life. This is a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers K - 12th
Introduce this abstract art to your class; they must chose ordinary classroom objects and shapes to paint with watercolors. The overlapping effect will create a fun, abstract piece of art!

Other popular searches