This lesson is quick and effective. Your students will love turning a simple marker drawing into a painting by brushing water onto the water-soluble maker. Using markers and a few... Learn More

What’s not to love about a lesson that combines fashion with a famous artist? With this simple marker lesson, your students can pretend to be fashion designers, focusing on the... Learn More

Fashion made easy! Kids use the pre-drawn fashion plates to create their own Pucci-inspired fashions. Trace the plates with a pencil and use markers to create and color your own... Learn More

In this lesson, your students will pretend to be a fashion designer who has the task of creating their own unique clothing design.  After drawing a large-scale figure with accurate... Learn More

This is a simple lesson focusing on proportions by drawing a fashion figure, also known as a “croquis” In proportions, a typical human body has “7 heads”, but for this... Learn More

Elizabethan clothing styles used rich, elegant materials such as fur, velvet, silk and lace. Not wanting to be mistaken as lower class, the upper class made sure to wear fancy,... Learn More

Fashion made easy! Kids use the pre-drawn fashion plates to create their own Pucci-inspired fashions. Trace the plates with a pencil and use markers to create and color your own... Learn More

Cook Island tivaevae is truly an art form. Tivaevae artists create very colorful patchwork quilts by hand. They were traditionally made by women from Polynesia who would usually work in... Learn More

Art projects don’t come more colorful than this! Students learn about coral reefs through children’s books such as Life in a Coral Reef by Wendy Pfeffer or Peek Inside Coral... Learn More

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech that set the goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. After many experiments, the... Learn More

Here is a project that combines American history with important art concepts: mixed-media collage, texture, achieving depth and the illusion of form. Read through the book, One Giant Leap: The... Learn More

This project is a wonderful opportunity to review or discuss the scientific accomplishments of space travel with a fun and engaging art activity. Children explore space in the scientific sense... Learn More

Learning how to manipulate paper into shapes and then placing them on a piece of paper to create an object is a big deal for young children. In this lesson... Learn More

In this lesson, children combine the front and back of animal bodies to create a new type of animal. Animal illustrations can be photocopied, arranged and assembled by the student... Learn More

This elephant art project is part art and part craft. Every few years or so, I like to buy an assortment of rhinestones and various sparkly embellishments. It’s always fun... Learn More

Drawing like Miró is quite fun. Often times the lines don’t make sense, which is why it’s such a great project to do with kids. Again, oil pastels are the... Learn More

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor and print-maker. His first paintings were inspired by Cubism and his later works were more magical and dream-like. The art he created during... Learn More

Here is an easy, quick and technique-rich lesson to do with your first and second grade students. The project can be completed in one 40-minute session, but if you want... Learn More