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This St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Art Lesson is a structured oil pastel and tempera paint resist project for elementary students. Students create a bold, expressive shamrock while exploring line, shape, texture, color blending and artistic decision-making. It is made for elementary art classrooms, classroom teachers adding seasonal art, homeschool art and substitute-friendly lesson plans. Built-in…
This Spring Duckling Art Lesson is a cheerful seasonal art project where students draw a baby duckling using line art, oil pastels and watercolor or tempera paint. Clear visual and written step instructions guide them through drawing and painting, and they add their own creative details so each duckling is unique. It suits elementary art…
This Easter Bunny Directed Drawing Art Lesson helps elementary students draw a cheerful bunny step by step while building confidence with shapes, lines and creative design. Students construct the bunny from simple shapes, add facial features, ears and decorations to give it personality, and then color it in bright spring colors. Because students make their…
This St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Art Project and Writing Activity combines a step-by-step leprechaun drawing with creative writing prompts, reflection and artist statements. Students create a colorful leprechaun inspired by Irish folklore and St. Patrick’s Day traditions, then write about it. The writing pages cover fiction, opinion and reflective writing, and a reading page about…
In this Spring Flower Art and Write lesson, students create a colorful spring flower artwork with oil pastels and paint, then write about it. They start with a short informational reading passage about spring to build background knowledge and ideas about nature, growth and new beginnings. Next, students follow step-by-step directed drawing instructions to create…
This Easter Art and Write activity combines an Easter drawing and painting lesson with writing activities. Students first create an Easter artwork of a decorated Easter egg with bunny ears and feet, then write about it through opinion writing, fiction storytelling, reflection writing and artist statements. It is a spring art and writing lesson for…
This End of the Year Cartoon Grid Drawing resource is designed for grades 1 to 4 and helps children build drawing confidence in a simple, structured way. Students copy one square at a time from an example cartoon grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful. It…
This Earth Day Cartoon Grid Drawing resource gives students in grades 1 to 4 a simple, structured way to build drawing confidence. Students copy an Earth Day cartoon one square at a time from the example grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful. The cartoon images…
This Spring Cartoon Grid Drawing resource gives students in grades 1 to 4 a simple, structured way to build drawing confidence. Students copy a spring cartoon one square at a time from the example grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful. The cartoon images are drawn…
This Easter Cartoon Grid Drawing resource helps students in Grades 1 to 4 build drawing confidence one square at a time. Students copy a cartoon image from the example grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful. The cheerful, kid-friendly cartoons are drawn by Kathleen McGiveron (Ms…
This July Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for grade 2 to 5 students. On each page, students follow a simple directed drawing, create a summer-themed illustration, and then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Drawing first gives students something to describe, explain or build a story…
This July Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students follow a directed drawing to create a themed illustration, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first…
This June Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for grade 2 to 5 students. On each page, students follow a simple directed drawing, create a themed illustration, and then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Drawing first means students are not starting from a blank page. They…
This June Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students follow a directed drawing, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first gives young writers something concrete…
This May Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for Grades 2 to 5. On each page, students follow a directed drawing to create a May illustration, then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Drawing first gives students something visual and personal to describe, explain, imagine or build…
This May Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students draw a May picture, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first gives young writers something real…
This Spring Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for grade 2 to 5 students. On each page, students follow a simple directed drawing, create a spring illustration, and then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Drawing first means students are not starting from a blank page. They…
This Spring Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students draw a spring picture, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first gives young writers something real…
This April Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for Grades 2 to 5. On each page, students follow a directed drawing to create an April illustration, then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Drawing first gives students something visual and personal to describe, explain or imagine, so…
This April Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students draw an April picture, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first gives young writers something real…
This March Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with paragraph writing practice for grade 2 to 5 students. On each page, students follow a simple directed drawing, create a March-themed illustration, and then write a paragraph inspired by their artwork. Starting with a drawing means students are not facing a blank page….
This March Write and Draw resource pairs a step-by-step directed drawing with sentence writing practice for K to 2 students. On each page, students draw a March picture, trace and write the word, trace and write a simple sentence, and then write their own sentence using the word. Drawing first gives young writers something real…
This Valentine’s Day Value Heart Art Project is a complete, print-and-teach art lesson for grades 3 to 6. Students draw five overlapping hearts, shade them with oil pastel highlights and shadows, then paint over white pastel swirls to reveal a bold watercolor resist background. It gives older students a Valentine project that teaches real skills:…
In this Lunar New Year art lesson, students create a Lunar New Year Dragon artwork. They explore making oil pastel marks, then complete the artwork with watercolor paint. An included reading and poem about the Lunar New Year works as a hook and gives age-appropriate information about the holiday. It is a complete, fully planned…
In this Valentine's Day Heart Craft and Write, students follow a tutorial to make a heart craft, then write about it. The craft comes with various patterns and elements to cut and glue, so each student can add their own artist flavor and make a unique heart inspired by Valentine's Day. The craft style is…
In this Lunar New Year Dragon Craft and Write, students follow a tutorial to make a Lunar New Year dragon craft, then add their own artistic flavor with the various cut-and-glue elements included, so every dragon is unique. Afterwards, they complete fiction or non-fiction writing inspired by their craft, and finish with coloring, reflections and…
This Lunar New Year Cartoon Grid Drawing resource gives grades 1 to 4 students a simple, structured way to build drawing confidence. Students copy a cartoon image one square at a time from the example grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful as they draw. It…
This St Patricks Day Cartoon Grid Drawing resource gives students in grades 1 to 4 a simple, structured way to build drawing confidence. Students copy a cartoon image one square at a time from the example grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them focus, slow down and feel successful as they draw….
This Valentines Day Cartoon Grid Drawing resource helps students in grades 1 to 4 build drawing confidence in a simple, structured way. Students copy one square at a time from an example cartoon grid into the blank grid beside it, which helps them slow down, focus and feel successful as they draw. The cartoon style…
This Van Gogh Sunflowers Art Project is an artist study lesson where students create a bright sunflower still life inspired by Vincent van Gogh using oil pastel and watercolor paint. They explore expressive mark-making, layered color and bold line to make a large vase, multiple sunflowers, expressive petals, green stems and textured background marks. It…
