This printmaking lesson featuring a tractor is both technical and fun. Students will begin by using lines to draw a tractor from observation. Then, they will transfer their drawing to... Learn More
Inspired by artist Grant Wood, these bright chalk pastel landscape can be created in just a few class sessions. After drawing the layers of hills that give the scene a... Learn More
This slumbering hedgehog is sure to delight your youngest students. Include the optional peekaboo leaf for an interactive element. In this lesson, students will learn about creating texture with lines... Learn More
This lesson is sure to grow on your first-grade students and offers a great opportunity to explore the life cycle of a plant, from seed to seedling by incorporating cross-curricular... Learn More
Cozy burrowing animals curl up for sleep beneath a painted blanket of snow in this lesson that covers the concepts of space, texture and unity. Seven burrowing animals with drawing... Learn More
In this lesson, students will draw a prairie dog with the facial expression of their choice. Then they will draw a grassland background that has both texture and a sense... Learn More
Even wonder what’s beneath your feet? This project and the accompanying book The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zimmer will allow you to explore just that.... Learn More
Students will love showing off their shading skills by creating these chalk pastel drawings of underground pipes. This lesson has lots of opportunity for choice in material, color scheme and... Learn More
This bright and colorful take on caves will have your students eager to adventure below ground on their own journey through these natural phenomena. This lesson emphasizes the element of... Learn More
Inspired by the anonymous French street artist Ememem, this project features contrasting textures created as students fill a hole in the rough paper sidewalk with smooth paper tiles. After designing... Learn More
Who doesn’t love a fluffy, happy cloud and colorful rainbow? Combine the two and you’ll have a project that your students will surely love. Inspired by the illustrations in the... Learn More
I’ve never met a student that wasn’t fascinated by birds’ nests. Inspired by the charming illustrations in the book Bird Builds a Nest by Martin Jenkins and Richard Jones, this... Learn More
Your students will be delighted by this tower crane project that has actual movement to pull loads up to the top. This lesson starts with drawing geometric shapes for buildings... Learn More
This found object printmaking lesson is both engaging and inspiring, as students learn about the story of a young inventor, William Kamkwamba. Combining many different printmaking techniques, like printing with... Learn More
Would you like to try skydiving? This lesson will allow students to think about this unique activity by you like to try skydiving? This lesson will allow students to think... Learn More
Create a festival of hot air balloons floating together with this art project that features three large balloons with actual movement that can “float” up and down on paper strips.... Learn More
This layered, painted paper treehouse collage is bound to get your students’ creative wheels turning. Featuring several different options for making painted paper, this lesson offers an abundance of experimentation... Learn More
Although common, starlings are quite amazing birds. Have you ever seen a giant flock of them twisting and swirling through the sky? In this lesson, students will have a chance... Learn More