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These 40 Christmas drawing task cards work as art activities or sketchbook prompts to keep students festive and busy before winter break. The tasks include illustrating narratives, creativity challenges, creatively designing a world, re-imagining, using the senses, using values and lines, and designing items such as wrapping paper and posters. Each card has just one…
These Christmas Writing Task Cards give your students 40 themed writing prompts to keep them festive and busy before winter break. The set includes story starters, informational writing prompts, opinion writing prompts and narrative writing prompts. Each card has a single task, so students don’t feel overwhelmed. They can do one card or work through…
These Christmas Zen Doodle Coloring Pages are a set of 10 detailed, hand-drawn Christmas coloring sheets that bring calm, mindful, creative time to your classroom or homeschool during the busy December season. Each design is an original Ms Artastic drawing, not clip art, with festive holiday symbols and winter imagery. They are made for Grades…
These Winter Zen Doodle Coloring Pages are a set of 10 detailed, hand-drawn winter coloring sheets that help students relax, focus and express creativity through art. Each illustration is an original Ms Artastic design, not clip art, filled with winter animals and snowy scenes. They are a no-prep, print-and-go activity for grades 3 to 8,…
This Winter Chickadee Art Project and Journal Write combines a chickadee mixed media art piece with a winter nature walk and journal writing. Students plan, observe, write and then create their own winter chickadee artwork. A student workbook guides them through brainstorming, recording their senses on a nature walk, drawing what they see and writing…
This Painting Poppies Visual Art Project is a meaningful Remembrance Day or Memorial Day art activity that helps students honor veterans and show their gratitude for those who have fought for freedom. It is designed for elementary and middle grade classrooms and homeschool settings, and it is accessible to all levels. A step-by-step PowerPoint walks…
These Remembrance Day Coloring Sheets are a set of 10 original, hand-drawn poppy and Flanders Fields coloring pages inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Major John McCrae. Every illustration is an original Ms Artastic design, not made with clip art. The pages feature poppies, crosses and larks, and give students a calm, reflective…
This free Remembrance Day Coloring Bookmark is a hand-drawn, zen-style bookmark featuring the poem In Flanders Fields by Major John McCrae. It is a sample of Ms Artastic’s hand-drawn coloring bookmarks. Use it as a Remembrance Day activity, an early finisher or time-saver activity, or an art center. Just print and go. WHAT TEACHERS ARE…
This free Thanksgiving coloring bookmark is a hand-drawn, zen, cartoon-style bookmark, and a sample of my coloring bookmarks and sheets. Just print and go. Use it as a time saver, an early finisher activity, a Thanksgiving activity or an art center. It keeps fast finishers busy, peaceful and at their desks while you help others…
These Thanksgiving Coloring Sheets are a set of 10 original, hand-drawn coloring pages for calm focus, creative fun and mindfulness in the classroom or homeschool. Each design is an original Ms Artastic illustration, not clip art, with zen doodle details and harvest and gratitude imagery. They are designed for Grades 3 to 8 and fit…
This free Halloween Coloring Bookmark is a quick time saver for October. Use it as an early finisher activity, a Halloween activity or an art center, and keep fast finishers busy, calm and at their desks. It is a hand-drawn, zen, cartoon-style bookmark and a free sample of my Halloween coloring bookmarks and sheets. Just…
These Halloween Zen Doodle Coloring Pages are a set of 10 intricate Halloween mindfulness coloring sheets for Grades 3 to 8. Each page is an original, hand-drawn Ms Artastic design, not clip art, full of seasonal details like pumpkins, bats, spiders, haunted houses, witches, cats, ghosts and candy. The detailed designs help students slow down,…
This Finish the Picture resource includes 10 creativity challenge pages. Each page gives students part of a drawing, and they continue the image, fill the page and complete the artwork with their own ideas, then color or shade the final picture. Because every page starts with only a few lines, students use creative thinking, problem…
This Back to School Caricature Pennant Banner Art Project is a fun first week art lesson where students learn to draw caricatures, explore their artistic identity and design an exaggerated self-portrait full of personal flair and humor. It builds classroom community and makes a one-of-a-kind display for Meet the Teacher Night or parent-teacher conferences. It…
These Zen Doodle Coloring Pages are a set of original, hand-drawn doodle-style designs that feel more artistic than basic coloring sheets. Students color birds, apples and worms, robots, swirls, fish, hearts, whimsical faces, buildings and more, with patterns, repetition and symmetry that invite careful coloring and creative choices. The pack also includes 2 Complete the…
These Coloring Bookmarks are original, hand-drawn printable bookmarks to color for teachers, art teachers and homeschoolers. Students color cute animals, fantasy characters, whimsical scenes, nature designs, robots, rockets, underwater scenes and more, then cut out a bookmark they can actually keep and use. It is a calm, low-prep activity for early finishers, reading groups, library…
These St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Bookmarks are 5 hand-drawn, St. Patrick’s Day themed bookmarks for your readers this season. Students take ownership of their bookmarks by coloring in the detailed illustrations. They are great for inspiring reading, as an early finisher activity, or as a back to school or end of year activity. They also…
These Easter Coloring Bookmarks are five hand-drawn, Easter themed bookmarks for your readers this season. Students take ownership of their bookmarks by coloring the detailed illustrations. They are a nice way to encourage reading, and work as an early finisher activity, a back to school or end of year activity, for book club groups or…
These School Subject Coloring Bookmarks are original, hand-drawn printable bookmarks for students to color, cut and keep. There are 8 designs, one for each subject: Dance, Drama, English, Math, Music, Science, Social Studies and Writing. They make a calm, low-prep activity for teachers, art teachers and homeschoolers. Students make their own color choices and finish…
These Coloring Bookmarks are a low-prep printable for teachers, art teachers and homeschoolers who want a calm coloring activity that ends with something students can keep and use. Students color one of 9 original, hand-drawn bookmark designs, then take their finished bookmark to the library, use it in reading groups or keep it in their…
This Elements of Art Posters set includes 7 printable classroom posters for Color, Form, Line, Shape, Space, Texture and Value. Each poster is an original, detailed illustrated design by Ms Artastic, not clip art, with its own bold visual theme. The posters keep art vocabulary visible all year, so students keep seeing the Elements of…
This Graffiti Drawing Art Lesson teaches graffiti lettering, bubble and wildstyle fonts and the ethics of street art. Students develop their own graffiti-style lettering while exploring visual communication, composition and artistic voice. It is written for Grades 4 to 8, works well for hooking disengaged learners, and is structured enough to leave with a sub….
These 120 Sketchbook Prompt Task Cards give students a ready answer to “I don’t know what to draw.” Students grab a card and start creating, exploring new ideas, characters, scenes and visual storytelling in their sketchbooks. The prompts are open-ended, so students of different ages and skill levels can interpret them in their own way…
These Creativity Challenges get ideas flowing as students try to complete as many drawings as they can while being as creative as possible. Each challenge gives students a shape, and they draw as many things as they can that start from or include that shape. They cannot combine them, and every drawing must be unique….
This Watercolor Painting Art Lesson teaches students the basics of watercolor painting techniques: creating textures, making a color wheel, mixing tints, tones and shades, building values and researching their own chosen theme for a watercolor painting. Two step-by-step presentations walk students through the techniques and the painting process, with examples of professional work. In the…
These Creativity Challenges get students’ creativity flowing as they try to complete as many drawings as they can while being as creative as possible. They are fun, artistic brain games, and the older students get, the harder they seem to be. Students in all grades enjoy them. Use them as an art lesson, a fast…
These Creativity Challenges are fun, artistic brain games that get students’ imaginations going. This set has 4 Creativity Challenges. For each one, students draw as many things as they can that come from or include the shape given, trying to be as creative as possible. Use them as an art lesson, a worksheet for when…
These Creativity Challenges get students’ creative juices flowing. Each challenge gives students a shape, and they try to draw as many different things as they can that come from or include that shape, being as creative as possible. Students in all grades love these artistic brain games, and the older you are, the harder they…
This Valentine’s Crafts, Activities and Cards set gives you a mix of February projects to make with your students. It includes crafts such as an owl wreath and a bird in a heart nest, a love bug mobile, a Valentine’s themed landscape drawing, student-to-parent “I Owe You” cards, teacher-to-student Valentine’s cards, and “when you’re done”…
These Creativity Challenges are artistic brain games that get students thinking and drawing creatively. This set has 4 Creativity Challenges. For each one, students draw as many things as they can that come from or include the shape given, trying to be as creative as possible. Use them as an art lesson or as a…
