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Text "Art is Basic" in a purple watercolor style with paint splatters.

Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!

Illustrated "Map of My Heart" art project featuring a heart shape filled with colorful drawings, animals, and words like a word search—perfect for expressing personal favorites or as a free Valentine's Day activity.

Free Valentine’s Day Word Search

Hi! Valentine’s Day is coming up and here is a fun, free word search you could give to your students.…

  • January 29, 2022
  • all grades, hearts, holiday, Valentines Day
A blue abstract painting of a large heart containing a smaller heart, surrounded by wave-like wave-like patterns, created using Gelli Plates.

Valentine’s Day Art Projects for Kids | Heart Art

Easy and Fun Valentine's Heart Art Projects for Kids: This blog post shares a slideshow of 5 artist that use hearts in their art.

  • January 30, 2021
  • 4 Comments
  • artists, distance learning, hearts, holiday, Valentines Day
Heart-shaped, colorful collage with words like 'Sparkle,' 'Family,' and 'Dream' on a notebook.

Mixed Media Heart Collage

Do you have an art journal?  I love to make collages in mine.  Here is a heart collage that would…

  • January 30, 2018
  • all grades, collage, hearts, Valentines Day
Hand-drawn heart maps filled with colorful illustrations, depicted on a white background with "Heart Map" text below. Perfect for kids' heart art projects.

Heart Art Projects for Kids

Now is the time to start planning for Valentine’s Day art projects.  I am going to share with you a…

  • January 10, 2018
  • 1st grade, abstract, all grades, artists, drawing, first grade, hearts, holiday, pattern, Teachers Pay Teachers, Valentines Day
A colorful heart filled with multicolored dots in blue, pink, purple, yellow, and orange on a white background.

Kindergarten Confetti Hearts for Valentine’s Day!

Here is a fun and beautiful Valentine’s project!   I call it “Confetti Hearts”  with a side of Matisse.  This…

  • February 9, 2017
  • 2 Comments
  • 1st grade, abstract, hearts, holiday, kindergarten
Four vibrant dot paintings featuring two hearts, a star, and an abstract shape, each in bright hues.

Easy Dot Pictures

I was out for a couple days with a sub earlier this year (around Valentine’s Day) and I found this…

  • April 4, 2015
  • fourth grade, hearts, painting, third grade, Valentines Day
A blue abstract painting of a large heart containing a smaller heart, surrounded by wave-like wave-like patterns, created using Gelli Plates.

Monoprint Hearts on Gelli Plates with 1st Graders

Hello friends!  Have you used Gelli Printing Plates before?  I was introduced to this a couple of years ago because…

  • February 7, 2015
  • 2 Comments
  • 1st grade, hearts, holiday, printmaking
A colorful heart collage on black paper with a pink and red patterned background, featuring tinfoil hearts.

Tinfoil Hearts with Kindergarten

The Kindergartners made these lovely mixed media heart pictures.  They started by stamping the background paper with gadgets, such as…

  • February 3, 2015
  • hearts, holiday, kindergarten, printmaking
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A graphic featuring three colorful Valentine’s Day heart-themed art projects for kids, including heart maps and creative heart drawings. Text reads: “Valentine’s Day Art Projects! 3 Projects.”.
A colorful, collage-style vision board for kids features motivational quotes, images, drawings, and words like “STRONG,” “GROW,” and “BELIEVE YOU CAN,” with “FULL PRINTABLE KIT!” text above—perfect for creative printables.
A promotional image for yearlong art choice boards, featuring sample boards for August, September, October, February, and December; includes text highlighting 12+ months of activities.

Free Sub Tub Guide

A colorful flyer titled "Ten Easy Art Activities for Subs" features images of art supplies, a worksheet about creating an “Art Sub Tub,” and highlights free art sub plans perfect for substitute teachers.

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