Art Lesson Plans

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Preschool

• Scrapbooks
  Students will gather their pictures they have made and put them together in a scrapbook for their...
• Bookmarks
  Children will make bookmarks for their parents. The bookmarks will have a picture of each child. You will laminate them when the children finish...
• Picture Word Book
  For this lesson, students will have pictures of animals, toys, or other topics. Then, they will make a Picture Word...
• Decorating Christmas Trees
  Students will decorate a Christmas tree using crayons, small cotton balls, and other ornaments that they can glue to their...
• Turkey Color Page
  Student will have a white pieces of paper with a turkey on it. Have the students color the turkey according to the directions you give them. You also need a sample page for them to...

Kindergarten

• Making Christmas Cards
  In this lesson, students will learn to make Christmas cards for their parents. This lesson plan can also be for elementary students Grades 1 to...
• Finger Painted Christmas Trees
  Students will have green finger paint to make Christmas trees. They will also use red finger paint and make decorations on the tree and presents below the...
• Hand Painted Turkeys
  Students will have brown finger paint so they can place their right hand in the paint and place it on finger paint paper. Then, they will place their left hand in the paint and on the paper. They...
• Play Dough Farm Animals
  Students will make farm animals out of play...
• Farm Pictures
  Students will paint a farm and glue pictures of farm animals on their pictures. Students will need to let the paint dry first before they can glue on the pictures of farm...
• Forest Animals
  Students will draw a forest on their white paper and glue pictures of animals that roam in the...
• Ocean Pictures
  Students will make pictures of the ocean and then glue pictures of different types of animals found in the...
• Color Book
  Students will find different pictures that show different colors. For example, they will look for pictures that show red and glue them to the page that has the word red at the top. Each page will...
• Turkey Feathers - Counting
  Students will have turkey patterns and feathers. They will place the correct number of feathers on the turkey that is written below each turkey. Then, they can color the turkeys. This lesson...
• Falling Leaves
  In this lesson, students will paint over leaves to create a painting of falling...
• Making Valentine's Day Cards
  Students will make Valentine's Day...
• Making Santas
  Students will make Santas for this lesson. This lesson can be done in December for...
• Making Turkeys
  This lesson plan can be used in November for Thanksgiving. Students will make...
• I Am Special
  In this lesson, students will be taught that they each have qualities that make them special in their own way....
• Learning About Leaves
  In this lesson, you will take the students on a trip outside to collect different kinds of leaves. Then, you will return to the classroom and do their art...
• Dyed Flower Garden
  In this lesson, you will teach students to create a dyed flower garden, discuss how plants grow and read Eric Carle's "Tiny...

Elementary School

• Christmas Felt Scene
  In this lesson, students will make a Christmas Scene out of felt. They will cut out patterns and glue the patterns on white construction...
• Being Thankful
  This lesson plan can be used the week of Thanksgiving. Students will draw a large circle and then smaller circles and lines pointing to the large circle. Inside the large circle, they will write...
• Christmas Trees
  Students will have a Christmas Tree pattern on white construction paper, and then they will draw Christmas balls on the trees and write mother, father, brother's name, sister's name, and pets. This...
• Thanksgiving Mural
  This lesson plan should be for fourth and fifth grade students. Students will draw a mural of the history of Thanksgiving. They will start with the first Thanksgiving and work up to the present...
• Christmas Scene and Paragraph
  In this lesson, students will draw a Christmas Scene and then write a paragraph about the...
• Making a Word Book
  This lesson plan can combine art and writing. The students will create a cover for their word book. The word book will consist of new words that they come across in their reading or what they hear...
• Making Pencil Containers
  Students will make pencil...
• Safety Safari Poster
  Teacher will create a safety hazard list and discuss personal safety with students....

Middle School

• Writing a Television Advertisement
  In this lesson, you will have students write and illustrate an advertisement for their favorite television...
• Illustrating and Writing a Short Story
  This lesson is about drawing pictures of scenes and then writing about the...
• Making a Journal
  In this lesson, students will make a journal. Then, they can start writing in their journal on any topic they...

High School

• Photo Album
  In this lesson, students will take pictures of different scenes, their family, family activities, or any other pictures that would appeal to readers. After that, they will write something about each...