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Drawing in a Bottle
Practice hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling on a shading worksheet, then apply shading and creative imagery within one of eight bottle-shaped drawing templates.
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Painting & color
Paul Cezanne Art Project
Students watch a video about Cezanne, discuss what they learned with a neighbor, practice painting apples (at least one) with an abstract background, compare their work to example excellent/good/poor student work, and select their best piece.
Drawing & design
Shoe Design Project - 4 Designs
Students consider target market/client (age, job, hobby, favourite sport, style, location), design inspiration, and colour theory (main colour plus complementary colours), then sketch rough-draft design ideas for each of the four shoe types using provided templates (4-shoes-per-page and 8-shoes-per-page layouts), name…
Collage & printmaking
Jacob Lawrence City Collages – Art Lesson
Here is art project and presentation about the work of Jacob Lawrence. Students will learn how to create a collage of a busy city using geometric shapes, the layering process and oil pastels. This lesson includes a detailed 25-slide PowerPoint presentation packed with information about Jacob Lawrence and his paintings…
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Positive and Negative Space Birdcages - Art Lesson & Presentation
An art lesson teaching positive and negative space concepts through a bird silhouette / birdcage drawing project.
Art across cultures
Art From Around the World
Students complete a country-specific craft or drawing activity (e.g. designing, coloring, cutting, folding, or copying an example), varying by country/page.
Drawing & design
Fantasy Maps - Art Project & Presentation
Fantasy Maps - Art Project & Presentation Have you ever wanted to teach a lesson on map making but didn't know where to begin? This is the resource for you! This lesson will help you teach your students how to create a map of their own imagined land. The included PowerPoint presentation is packed with the following…
Collage & printmaking
Arctic Animal Styrofoam Prints - Art Project & Presentation
Arctic Animal Styro-Prints - Art Project and Presentation Get your students excited about art and the arctic with this fun lesson! Students will learn about life in the arctic circle including what types of people live there, what the environment is like, what kind of animals live there and much more! The PowerPoint…
Cross-curricular projects
The War That Saved My Life | STEAM Activities & Project-Based Learning
Complete five hands-on WWII-themed projects: analyze and design British propaganda posters, solve evacuation-train math word problems, decode/encode messages with historical ciphers (Caesar, Pigpen, Enigma, transposition), analyze and plan wartime rationed meals/nutrition, and design and build a bomb shelter model.
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Cross-curricular projects
Forest Habitat Coloring Pages | Line Art Templates | Biome Art Project
Color or use as a base for a more intricate art project the provided forest/boreal habitat and rabbit illustrations and their lightened outline (template) versions.
Cross-curricular projects
Tour Creator Project
Have students research a country's art, culture, and music and present it through a self-designed multi-phase project.
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Painting & color
Windmills and Flowers - Art Project & Presentation
Windmills and Flowers - Art Project & Presentation Get excited about art with this fun lesson inspired by the country of the Netherlands! Your students will learn how to create a painting of a Dutch landscape complete with an iconic windmill and rows of flowers. This resource features a 21-slide PowerPoint…
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"Pictures of Hollis Woods" Activities + Project Menu
Students choose from 8 project options (timeline of events, vocabulary + illustration, personal art piece, cause/effect writing, rewriting a scene from another character's point of view, Venn diagram comparison, realistic-fiction analysis, and a piece of art depicting a memory) plus a required reflection page; work is…
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Desert Habitat Coloring Pages | Line Art Templates | Biome Art Project
The same desert illustrations are supplied in two outline treatments. Use the darker line art for coloring, or choose the lightened version when students will build on the drawing with added detail or other art materials. This lets a class use a shared subject while varying how much of the finished artwork students create themselves.
Cross-curricular projects
Wetland Habitat Coloring Pages | Line Art Templates | Biome Art Project
Use wetland scenes for coloring or as a starting point for a larger art project. Twelve illustrations appear as standard line art and again as lighter outlines. Choose the version that suits the materials students will use, and connect the scene with a discussion of habitats. The two treatments offer different levels of visual guidance while keeping the subject familiar.
Painting & colorArt across cultures
Viking Dragonship Paintings
Viking Dragonship Paintings Teaching Resource Viking Dragonship Paintings is an engaging teaching resource designed to catalyze creativity and foster a love for history among 3rd to 6th-grade students. This comprehensive art project enhances artistic skills while deepening historical understanding, transporting…
Cross-curricular projects
Rainforest Habitat Coloring Pages | Line Art Templates | Biome Art Project | Jungle
The same ten rainforest illustrations appear in two forms. Use the darker line art for coloring, or choose the lighter outlines when students will develop the image with their own drawing, painting, or mixed-media details. Comparing the two versions can help students decide how much of the printed outline they want to show.
Cross-curricular projects
"Number the Stars" Activities + Project Menu
Students choose from 8 project options (e.g. illustrate a favorite scene and explain it, find and define 10 unfamiliar vocabulary words with illustrations, rewrite a passage in first-person point of view, list causes and effects from the story, write historical facts learned from the book, compare and contrast two…
Cross-curricular projects
Ecology Project | Ecology Research Report
Answer short-response prompts about ecology concepts (habitats, food chains/webs, biomes, ecosystems), define and illustrate ecology vocabulary terms, label/color food chain and food web diagrams, follow a guided research process (choosing sources, taking notes in bullet or lined formats), create a biome poster and an…
Drawing & design
Roll and Draw Your Name or Favorite Word Alphabet Game Sheets
For each letter of their name/word, roll a die three times (letter shape, design element, and line pattern) to build a decorated letter, then outline the whole word, break the page into sections, fill sections with patterns or color, and color the final artwork.
Art across cultures
India: Exploring Ancient Civilizations
Read informational passages on Ancient India's civilizations/empires and complete related hands-on activities: make a chess set, design a coin, write an elephant-walk poetry book, make a peacock feather frame, grocery bag bark art, a puppet monkey, wrap a saree/turban, build a story column, and make paper bead…
Art across cultures
Ancient Rome Art Project
An art project resource teaching Ancient Roman mosaic art through a paper mosaic-tile-assembly activity.
Cross-curricular projects
NGSS Third Grade Life Cycle and Migration Project - Activities for 3-LS1-1
Read learning pages about monarch generations and migration, complete an exit-ticket comprehension check, handwrite life-cycle/season vocabulary onto butterfly wing cutouts, color the wings by generation using guided color instructions, then cut, fold and glue the butterflies together in seasonal order to build a…