This comprehensive site offers art lessons and activities at a wide range of levels:
- PreK-K
- Grades 1-2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 6-8
- Grades 9-12
- College/University
Explore the many forms of visual art, from basket weaving to painting, and glasswork to furniture, with resources that encourage analysis, research, and practice. Preschoolers can practice their colors and discover how colors change when mixed with a lesson from the Abracadabra series. Middle and high school students can design self-logos and write descriptions of them after watching "The Art of Logo Design" from Off Book. The Math + Arts collection provides cross-curricular lessons that combine math with visual arts topics such as Shapes & Patterns, Perspective Drawing, and Totem Poles. Filmmaking, photography, and architecture, in addition to careers in art, the history of visual arts, and art institution, are all also explored.
Explore the videos, interactive lessons, interactives, lesson plans, galleries, audio files, images, documents, webpages and collections. Lots to offer!
PBS has created and shared tons of media rich, engaging, digital lessons for a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.
Find FREE videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers like you. Choose from lots of filters that will customize your search so you can find exactly what you're looking for.
On this website, you'll find several different printable pelicans (of varying detail).
Google Quick, Draw! tells you what to draw and then uses artificial intelligence to try to guess what you're drawing. Fun!
Follow the instructions provided to create air dry clay fairy houses.
Follow these instructions to create animal pinch pots.
Check out this source for instructions on how to create crazy pasta sculptures that look like twisty and bendy pieces of art!
Learn how to make leaf bowls with air drying clay, fired clay, or even salt dough.
In this activity, kids get creative by cutting cardboard into various shapes, then stacking it. The final step of pouring paint over their creations is definitely the icing on the cake!
In this fun activity, students experiment with manipulating paper to create different shapes and effects. They also learn about (and practice creating) symmetry!
In this art lesson, children learn about the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, then have fun with a quick human figure sketching activity, finally creating foil sculptures of people.
Students create sculptures by manipulating colourful papers.
Toy Theater playfully teaches conceptual foundations with online interactive games and activities that have real educational value. Find resources for math, reading, art, music, puzzles and games.
This website outlines the steps to create an Australian Aboriginal Dot Art project.
This site is full of free (and paid) resources to help teachers and students.You can filter by age, grade, subject, and more.Search everything from back to school, orange shirt day, and subject specific topics to find great resources.
This is a one-page choice board with various visual arts projects (including links to full instructions), suitable for Grade 2 students in Saskatchewan.
Be sure to check out these TED Ed videos on all things visual arts - right from "Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?" to "The Art of Folding Origami" and much more! You'll find something for all age groups!