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

Art Projects for Kids + Tips for the Teacher!

Four colorful Viking ship artworks with decorative sails on a blue and white background; text reads "Viking Ship Artwork, free templates for your next art project!

Free Viking Ship Templates | Art Project

My first grade students had a blast making these Viking ship pictures. They have been studying about the Vikings in…

  • December 4, 2024
  • 1st grade, drawing, social studies
The "Primary Color Hands" art lesson for grades K-2 offers a creative activity ideal as a free art sub plan. Goals include using primary colors to create unique patterns and enhance tracing skills. Students trace their hands and design vivid patterns, resulting in colorful hand designs.

Free Art Sub Plan: Primary Color Hands

This is an art project perfect for a kindergarten to 2nd grade substitute lesson plan. When you have to take…

  • November 2, 2024
  • 1st grade, color theory, drawing, freebie, kindergarten, second grade, substitute lessons
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What To Do On the First Day of Art Class

Hello! I am already seeing lots of posts in Facebook groups asking what to do in the first few days…

  • July 30, 2024
  • 1st grade, all grades, art teacher tips, books, fifth grade, first days of school, first grade, fourth grade, kindergarten, second grade, third grade
Abstract artwork featuring symmetrical yellow and black geometric shapes, with yellow shapes forming face-like profiles facing each other on a black background—an Inside Out Design masterpiece.

Inside Out Design

This is a fun, one-day project for kids that teaches about positive and negative space and is good for spatial…

  • May 13, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • 1st grade, second grade, shapes
Abstract artwork featuring a red triangle, blue square, and purple circle with layered, multicolored striped patterns and repeating lines.

Distance Art Lesson: Shapes with Repeating Lines

We are still fully virtual over here! I feel like I have been getting into a groove and things are…

  • December 5, 2020
  • 4 Comments
  • 1st grade, abstract, distance learning, kindergarten
Drawing of a green frog sitting on a lily pad surrounded by pink flowers against a blue and purple background.

Frog and Lilypad- Claude Monet

I have a whole slideshow that I will show my students about Claude Monet and his Impressionist artwork. This is…

  • November 18, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • 1st grade, distance learning, painting, watercolor
Two colorful, decorated letter cutouts: "F" with feathers and a face, and "E" with rainbow stripes and googly eyes that look like playful monsters from the alphabet.

Alphabet Monsters

My 1st graders had read a variety of ABC books about art and we made letters that were illustrated with…

  • October 25, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • 1st grade
Two colorful star-shaped shape monsters with playful facial features, made from paper for an art project.

Shape Monsters Art Project

I found this cute book called My Very Silly Monster Book of Shapes.  I read this book to my Kindergartners…

  • October 16, 2018
  • 1st grade, first grade, Halloween, kindergarten, shapes
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