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This 5th Grade Emoji Zen Doodle Name Art Lesson turns each student's name into a bold line art design filled with Zen Doodle patterns, emojis, color, symbols and personality. Students explore the Element of Art: Line, along with pattern, texture, emphasis, visual communication and identity, while creating an artwork that is completely their own. Students…
This Line Dragon Eye Art Lesson is a ready-to-teach Grade 5 art project that teaches the element of art: line. Students create a detailed dragon eye artwork filled with patterns, texture, movement and expressive line work. It is made for elementary art teachers, classroom teachers, homeschool families and substitute teachers who want a structured line…
This Color Wheel Grizzly Bear Art Lesson teaches the element of art: color through a bold grizzly bear artwork divided into color wheel sections. It is designed for Grade 5, and students learn how artists use color to create mood, contrast, harmony, emphasis, depth and visual interest. Instead of only filling in a color wheel…
This Color Wheel Wolf Art Lesson teaches the element of art: color through a bold wolf artwork divided into color-wheel sections. Instead of filling in a traditional color wheel worksheet, students apply primary, secondary and tertiary colors, warm and cool colors, tints and contrast to a finished, display-worthy Grade 4 art project. It is a…
This Line Lions Art Lesson teaches the element of art: line through a bold lion art project designed for grade 4. Students learn that line is one of the seven elements of art and that artists use it to build shapes, outline objects, create patterns, add texture, show movement, guide the viewer’s eye and communicate…
This Color Wheel Fish Art Lesson gives Grade 3 students a hands-on way to explore the element of art: color. Students create a bright underwater artwork with six colorful fish arranged in color-wheel order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Instead of filling in a color-wheel worksheet, students put their learning into a complete…
This Line Art Leopards Art Lesson gives Grade 3 students a creative way to explore the element of art: line while making a bold leopard artwork full of pattern, texture, movement and personality. Students learn how artists use straight, curved, wavy, zigzag, dashed, diagonal, horizontal, vertical, thick, thin and repeated lines to create shape, texture,…
This Line Art Ladybugs Art Project is a complete Grade 2 art lesson about the element of art: line. Students create a bright ladybug artwork filled with different lines and patterns, and learn how artists use straight, curved, wavy, zigzag, dashed, thick, thin, looped, hatched and cross-hatched lines to create shapes, patterns, textures, movement, feelings…
This Color Wheel Carrots Bunny Art Project is a complete Grade 2 art lesson that teaches primary and secondary colors through a cheerful bunny surrounded by a rainbow of carrots in color wheel order. It combines color mixing, drawing, painting, fine motor practice, literacy and reflection. Students learn about the element of art: color, identify…
WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ★★★★★ “My students loved mixing the secondary colors. They also loved painting the background. I showed them various ways to draw flower petals, and they designed their own petals. The finished pictures were fabulous.” Cassandra Leigh, TPT review Ratings are from TPT reviews (5-star scale). This Color Wheel Flower Art Lesson…
This Line Lizard Art Lesson teaches the element of art: line to Grade 1 students. Students create a colorful lizard artwork full of pattern, texture and personality while exploring straight, curved, wavy, zigzag, dashed, loopy, thick and thin lines. Along the way they practice pattern, texture, painting, drawing, cutting, gluing, literacy and reflection. It works…
WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ★★★★★ “This project was perfect for my kindergartners. They learned a lot and it focused on exactly what I was looking for. Their projects turned out great. Thanks.” Janet A., TPT review Ratings are from TPT reviews (5-star scale). In this Primary Colors Art Lesson, Kindergarten students explore red, yellow and…
This Puppy Line Art Lesson is a Kindergarten art lesson on the element of art: line. Students create a bright "Puppy Barking" line artwork while exploring straight, wavy, zigzag, curvy, looped, dotted, dashed, cross-hatch, thick and thin lines. It is designed for kindergarten teachers, art teachers, homeschool educators and substitute teachers. Along with the art,…
This Primary Colors Art Lesson gives young students a fun, memorable way to learn about red, yellow and blue while they create a cheerful Primary Color Monster full of personality. It is designed for Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade. Students explore the primary colors through directed drawing, painting, line and texture, and see how overlapping…
This Types of Lines Art Lesson gives Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade students a fun introduction to the element of art line through tracing, drawing, painting, reading and reflection. Students explore zigzag, looped, dashed, wavy, straight, cross-hatch, thick, thin and scribble lines while creating a bright line artwork with a cut-and-glue name piece. It comes…
This Halloween Jack-O’-Lantern Art Lesson is a complete, no-prep, classroom-ready resource for Grades 1 to 4. It focuses on the Elements of Art: Line, Shape and Value and explores the tradition and history of the Jack-O’-Lantern through artmaking, reading and reflection. Using oil pastels and colored construction paper, students draw and color their own expressive…
This Autumn Leaf Line Art Lesson is a fall art project for 1st to 4th grade. Students create a striking autumn leaf line artwork while exploring line, pattern, repetition and creative expression, learning how different lines and repeated marks can fill a space and change the look and feeling of an artwork. The tutorial comes…
This Bee Pattern Art Lesson introduces the Principle of Design: Pattern. Students create a bright bee artwork using tempera paint, construction paper and wax crayon, and learn how artists use pattern to bring rhythm, unity and excitement into their art. It is built for busy classroom teachers, art teachers, substitute teachers and homeschool educators, with…
This Anglerfish Art Lesson teaches the Element of Art: Value through a deep-sea subject students find fascinating. Working in charcoal or black soft pastels, students use light and dark values to create depth, mood and form, and explore dramatic contrast as they draw their own anglerfish. It is written for upper elementary and junior high…
This Value Chameleon Art Lesson is a mixed-media project that teaches the element of art value through monochromatic color schemes, tints and shades and collage. Students combine tempera paint, wax crayons, scrap paper and magazine clippings to create a chameleon artwork that builds depth using just one color. It is designed for Grades 1 to…
This Value Shark Art Lesson teaches the element of art: value to grades 1 to 4. Students use wax crayon, tempera paint and colored paper to create bold shark collages that explore tints, shades and expressive line. The lesson focuses on recognizing and applying light and dark values, with a mix of structured instruction and…
This Bird Line Art Project makes the element of art line fun and approachable for Kindergarten to Grade 3. Students draw their own stylized bird, fill the background with expressive lines, then bring it to life with oil pastels and tempera paint cakes or watercolor paints. It is made for classroom teachers, homeschool parents and…
This Otter Color Wheel Art Lesson teaches Kindergarten to Grade 3 students about primary and secondary colors in a hands-on way. Using wax crayons and tempera paint, students create a cheerful otter holding a color wheel, so the lesson is both a color mixing activity and a finished artwork for your walls or bulletin board….
This Color Theory Paintbrush Art Lesson helps students in Grades 4 to 7 explore and apply core color theory concepts through a creative drawing project. Students sketch a giant paintbrush and use colored pencils or pencil crayons to build a full color spectrum inside the bristles, including primary colors, secondary colors, tints and shades. Along…
This Value Eye Drawing Art Lesson teaches the Element of Art: Value to middle school artists in Grades 5 to 8. Students draw a realistic human eye with soft pastels and charcoal on black paper, exploring value, shading, contrast and realism. Students learn to identify highlights, midtones and shadows and apply soft pastel with control,…
This Sun and Moon Line Art Project is a black-and-white drawing lesson that teaches the Element of Art: Line along with creative thinking, composition and contrast. It is designed for upper elementary and middle school, Grades 4 to 7, and fills 1 to 3 art classes. Students use a fine tip marker or black colored…
This Warm and Cool Colors Sea Turtle Art Lesson teaches color theory to grades 4 to 7. Students explore the difference between warm and cool color schemes on a hand-drawn sea turtle coloring sheet, making intentional color choices with colored pencil techniques. It is a full art and literacy lesson that builds color theory vocabulary,…
This Color Wheel Tree Art Lesson introduces students in grades 1 to 4 to primary and secondary colors through a hands-on mixed media project. It is written for classroom teachers, art educators and homeschooling families. Students draw a tree in oil pastel, divide the background into sections, and fill each one with watercolor or tempera…
This Starfish Color Mixing Art Lesson teaches primary and secondary colors to students in grades 2 to 5. Students draw a cute cartoon-style starfish and blend the primary colors into secondary colors using colored pencils, pencil crayons or crayons, with no paint required. It covers the Elements of Art: Color and reinforces color theory basics…
This Color Mixing Peacock Art Lesson is a low-prep art lesson for Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3. Students learn color theory by mixing primary colors to make secondary colors while they create a bright peacock with oil pastel and watercolor or tempera paint. It is a full lesson for general educators, art…
