Complete K–9 Art Curriculum Membership for Art Teachers, Classroom Teachers and Homeschool
Discover the Artastic Collective, a growing K–9 art curriculum membership filled with ready-to-use art lessons, artist studies, planning tools, professional development, and support for art teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool families.
Complete K–9 Art Curriculum Membership for Art Teachers, Classroom Teachers and Homeschool
Planning an entire year of art can sound wonderfully creative until you realize how many individual pieces actually need to be created before students ever pick up a paintbrush.
You need ideas for several grades, complete lesson plans, learning goals, demonstrations, examples, handouts, artist information, presentations, rubrics, reflections, supply lists, and a reasonable plan for how all of it will fit into the school calendar.
Then, just when you think you have everything organized, there is an assembly, a shortened class, a missing box of supplies, or an unexpected schedule change that sends the entire plan flying gently out the window.
That is exactly why I created the Artastic Collective.
The Artastic Collective is my growing online Kindergarten through Grade 9 art curriculum membership, created for art teachers, classroom teachers, homeschool educators, and anyone who wants to teach meaningful art lessons without building every single resource from scratch.
Artastic Collective enrollment is now open for a limited time.
You can learn more and join here:
https://www.artasticcollective.com/join
What Is the Artastic Collective?
The Artastic Collective is an organized online library filled with art lessons, teaching resources, planning support, professional development, and creative inspiration for educators teaching Kindergarten through Grade 9.
It is designed to help you create a strong, engaging art program while still giving you flexibility.
You do not have to follow one strict curriculum from beginning to end.
You can use the membership to plan an entire school year, create a themed unit, organize lessons around the Elements of Art, introduce a new artist, find a seasonal project, or choose one lesson when you need something ready for tomorrow.
The goal is not to remove your creativity or tell you exactly how every class must look.
The goal is to make sure you do not have to begin every lesson with an empty document and seventeen open browser tabs.
You can begin with something thoughtfully planned and then adapt it to suit your students, your schedule, your classroom, and your own teaching style.
Who Is the Artastic Collective For?
It is a wonderful option for dedicated art teachers who are responsible for planning across several grades and need fresh ideas throughout the year.
It can also support classroom teachers who are expected to teach art but may not have formal art training or hours of extra planning time available.
Homeschool families can use the membership to build a complete art program, add one lesson to their weekly routine, or connect art with other areas of study such as science, history, geography, literature, nature, and seasonal learning.
The membership may be helpful if you:
- Teach Kindergarten through Grade 9
- Teach multiple grades or mixed-age groups
- Want meaningful art education instead of disconnected crafts
- Need fresh ideas and ready-to-use teaching support
- Want to spend less time creating every resource yourself
- Need more structure when planning your art year
- Homeschool and want art to become a consistent part of your learning routine
- Love teaching art but do not love planning it at 10:47 p.m. on a Sunday
You do not need to be a professionally trained art specialist.
You only need to be someone who wants to help children create, explore, solve problems, learn about artists, and build confidence through art.
Ready-to-Use Art Lessons for Kindergarten Through Grade 9
One of the biggest challenges for educators is finding art lessons that are appropriate for the age group they teach.
A project that works beautifully with Grade 1 may need completely different expectations, vocabulary, steps, and assessment when taught to Grade 6.
The Artastic Collective includes lessons and resources across Kindergarten through Grade 9, giving educators options for younger students, older learners, and several grades in between.
This can be especially helpful for elementary art specialists, itinerant teachers, small schools, classroom teachers, and homeschool families teaching children of different ages.
You can explore similar themes or concepts across several grades without requiring every student to complete the exact same project.
For example, several grades may explore line, colour, pattern, an artist, a holiday, or a dinosaur theme, while completing projects designed for their own developmental level.
This can make planning feel more connected and organized while still keeping lessons appropriate for each group.
Teach Real Art Concepts Through Creative Projects
The finished artworks inside the Artastic Collective are colourful, engaging, and designed to help students feel successful.
However, the goal is not only to create something lovely for the bulletin board.
The projects are connected to real artistic learning.
Students can explore the Elements of Art, including line, shape, colour, texture, form, space, and value.
They can also begin working with the Principles of Design, including pattern, contrast, balance, emphasis, movement, rhythm, unity, and variety.
Instead of only telling students, “Today we are making a lion,” a lesson can help students understand how artists use different types of lines to create texture, pattern, movement, and detail.
Instead of only making a colourful project, students can learn about primary and secondary colours, warm and cool colours, colour mixing, contrast, mood, and artistic choice.
The artwork remains fun, but students also understand more about what they are doing and why artists make particular decisions.
That is what helps an art project become a meaningful art lesson.
Artists, Art History and Creative Thinking
Introducing students to artists can open up so many wonderful conversations.
Students begin to understand that art is not one single style or one “correct” way of creating.
Artists come from different cultures, time periods, backgrounds, and experiences. They work with different materials, explore different ideas, and see the world in completely different ways.
Inside the Artastic Collective, you can find resources connected to artists, art history, artistic movements, cultures, and creative ideas.
These lessons can help students learn about an artist, examine examples of their work, notice important visual details, discuss artistic choices, and then create an original artwork inspired by what they learned.
The goal is not to create thirty identical copies of one famous artwork.
It is to help students understand the artist’s ideas and techniques, then use those ideas as a starting point for their own creativity.
Having the artist information, discussion prompts, visuals, and lesson support already prepared can also save educators an enormous amount of research and preparation time.
Art Lessons for Themes, Holidays and the Seasons
The Artastic Collective also includes resources connected to themes, holidays, seasons, animals, nature, science, cultures, and topics students are already excited to explore.
Seasonal and holiday lessons can be wonderful for building classroom excitement and creating beautiful displays, but finding a fresh project every month can quickly become another large planning job.
With a growing resource library available, you can choose a lesson that fits your students without beginning the search from the very beginning every time the calendar changes.
You can also build themed units around topics such as the ocean, outer space, rainforests, the Arctic, deserts, growth mindset, social-emotional learning, animals, countries, and cultures.
This can make it much easier to connect art with classroom learning or a homeschool unit.
New for 2026: Discovering Dinosaurs
I am so excited to introduce the new 2026 Discovering Dinosaurs Bundle inside the Artastic Collective.
Dinosaurs are one of those magical topics that can immediately capture the attention of a room full of students.
Younger learners love the giant creatures, dramatic teeth, and exciting shapes. Older students can explore fossils, prehistoric environments, scientific discoveries, texture, anatomy, movement, and imaginative reconstruction.
The Discovering Dinosaurs resources can be used as a complete themed art unit or selected individually throughout the year.
They are especially useful for:
- Elementary art classes
- Classroom science connections
- Homeschool dinosaur units
- Cross-curricular learning
- Art camps
- Mixed-age groups
- Students who need a highly engaging topic
The collection allows students to combine art with imagination, science, drawing, creative thinking, and prehistoric life.
Because even a student who claims not to be interested in art often has a surprisingly detailed opinion about the T. rex.
New Line and Colour Art Lessons
I have also added new lessons focused on line and colour for the upcoming art year.
These are two of the most important Elements of Art, and they are concepts students can continue exploring at every grade level.
Line lessons can help students understand how artists use straight, curved, zigzag, wavy, thick, thin, broken, and expressive lines.
Students can explore how line creates pattern, texture, movement, direction, shape, emotion, and detail.
Colour lessons may explore colour wheels, colour mixing, primary and secondary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours, contrast, mood, and expression.
These new resources help educators teach the concept clearly while giving students an exciting art project through which to practise and apply their learning.
What Is Included in an Art Lesson?
The contents of each resource may vary, but lessons inside the Artastic Collective can include support such as complete lesson plans, learning goals, curriculum connections, teaching slides, step-by-step visuals, student handouts, artist information, art history, vocabulary, critical-thinking questions, reflections, assessment tools, rubrics, drawing guides, and video demonstrations.
That means you are not simply handed a picture of a finished project and left to reverse-engineer the entire lesson yourself.
You have support for introducing the concept, explaining the process, helping students think more deeply, and assessing their learning.
You can print materials, display slides, teach from the lesson plans, use student pages, and adapt the project to suit your class length and available supplies.
The resources are there to give you a strong foundation.
You can then add your own ideas and personal teaching style without needing to create every single page first.
Sketchbooks, Drawing, Ceramics and Sculpture
A meaningful art program should offer students opportunities to work in different ways.
Not every lesson needs to become a large finished artwork.
Students also need time to practise drawing, explore materials, develop ideas, experiment, make mistakes, solve problems, and build confidence.
The Artastic Collective includes sketchbook activities, creative prompts, drawing resources, ceramics, sculpture, and three-dimensional art lessons.
These resources can help you add variety to your program and give students experiences beyond flat paper projects.
Sketchbook work can support idea development, observation, drawing skills, reflection, early-finisher activities, and creative routines.
Ceramics and sculpture lessons can help students explore form, construction, texture, balance, and three-dimensional design.
Together, these different areas make it easier to create a more balanced art year.
Professional Development and Planning Support
The Artastic Collective was not created only for students.
It was also created for the educator doing all the planning, organizing, preparing, teaching, assessing, and cleaning.
Members receive access to the Classroom and Art Teacher Growth Course, which includes approximately eight hours of professional-development learning.
The course includes support for topics such as planning your art year, building classroom routines, organizing resources, teaching art concepts, assessment, reflection, classroom management, and helping students feel confident and successful.
You can work through the material at your own pace and return to it whenever you need a refresher.
There are also planning resources, webinar replays, ongoing additions, and a members-only community.
I wanted the Artastic Collective to feel like more than a folder of downloads.
I wanted it to feel like somewhere you could go when you need a lesson, a clearer plan, a new idea, or support from someone who understands how much work goes into teaching art.
Build an Art Program Without Losing Every Evening
You may be completely capable of creating your own art curriculum.
Most teachers are incredibly creative, resourceful, and capable people.
But being capable of doing everything does not mean you should have to do everything yourself.
There is nothing wrong with beginning with a lesson that is already planned.
There is nothing wrong with using a ready-made rubric, presentation, handout, or reflection page.
There is nothing wrong with deciding that your evening is better spent with your family, resting, creating your own artwork, or doing something unrelated to tomorrow’s lesson.
The Artastic Collective exists to help carry some of the invisible work behind teaching art.
You still bring the relationships, encouragement, flexibility, humour, and understanding of your students.
Those are the parts no resource can replace.
The membership simply helps make sure you have a strong lesson ready when you walk into the room.
How Much Is the Artastic Collective?
You can choose the membership option that works best for your needs:
Monthly Membership: $35.99 per month
or
Annual Membership: $430.99 per year
Your enrollment price remains locked in for as long as your subscription stays active.
After joining, you can begin exploring the library, selecting resources, and planning your upcoming art year.
Artastic Collective Enrollment Is Open
Enrollment for the Artastic Collective is currently open for a limited time.
If you want access to a growing library of K–9 art lessons, artist studies, themed projects, Elements of Art and Principles of Design resources, planning tools, professional development, and ongoing creative support, I would love to welcome you inside.
Learn more and join the Artastic Collective here:
https://www.artasticcollective.com/join
You do not need to have your entire school year planned before joining.
You can begin with one grade, one unit, one art concept, or the very next lesson on your calendar.
One thoughtfully planned lesson at a time can still create an incredible year of art.
Sincerely,
Ms Artastic
