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
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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.
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Here's a great resource outlining 11 easy photography projects (even) kids can do.
No matter your age, if you are looking to become a better photographer, you can use these projects for practice. Each one will give you the opportunity to look at things differently and use your camera to capture specific images.
This article provides seven different photography explorations to do with children.
After some basic photography tips, allocate students a letter of the alphabet. Their task is to find objects that could represent that letter.
In this lesson, students move through the photography basics as they work towards having 12 great photos to make a 12-month calendar.
Photography is a great hobby to share with kids, and the ever-increasing accessibility of point-and-shoot cameras and camera phones makes this even easier. This is the first article in an occasional series about Teaching Kids Photography.
Want to take that next step in teaching your kid(s) about photography and stoking their life-long passion? This article is the second in an occasional series on teaching kids photography.
Experiment with Andy Warhol-inspired pop art with this fun chicken project.
Watch this video to learn how to paint Andy Warhol-inspired pop art donuts!
In this lesson, students create Andy Warhol-inspired self portraits in black and white (with bold, colourful backgrounds).
In this activity, students create a Burton Morris-inspired pumpkin!
In this activity, students paint hearts in the style of pop artist, Burton Morris.
In this group art project, students have the opportunity to trace a fellow-student, paint solid colours, and experiment with black and white patterns.
Students will love this pop art lesson that focuses on the principle of movement. It also makes a great abstract portrait that is frame-able!
In this activity, students create hamburgers inspired by Pop Artist, Claes Oldenburg.
In this lesson, students use pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein's, work for inspiration to create a sunrise painting.
In his lesson, students create pop art-inspired self portraits.
NOTE: You will need an alternate "photo to sketch" website / app than the one mentioned in this lesson. Use the idea presented here for inspiration.