30 crafts you can do at home or school with recycled materials. Get Creative!
- Subject:
- Arts Education
- Visual Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Jessica Mcfadden
- Posted Jessica Mcfadden
- Date Added:
- 06/01/2020
In Grade 2 Visual Arts, students are asked to create artworks that draw on observations and express ideas about their own communities.
Students are encouraged to create artworks using a variety of concepts (like secondary colours), forms (like collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, mobile, and traditional art), and media (like paper, found objects, paint, and crayons).
Explore this collection to find resources and activities suitable for Grade 2 Visual Arts.
30 crafts you can do at home or school with recycled materials. Get Creative!
Students will analyze and describe a painting depicting a family. They will discuss similarities and differences between the setting of the painting and where they live. Then students will create a sculpture of their family doing an activity together and also create a diorama of a room in their home.
This resource outlines the Ancient Greek art form, Trompe L'Oeil. Several resources are provided to learn more about this concept. Links for realistic drawing tutorials from Art for Kids Hub are also included.
This resources includes a couple of Ancient Greek Vase Project ideas. Vases and jugs were a very popular Ancient Greek art form.
Children’s drawings have a wonderful inventiveness, energy, and variety.
Bring children's drawings to life by animating characters to move around!
Here you can browse through art lesson plans by age or grade, from Preschool through High School.
The site includes a "What you can expect" of students artists at each age level.
At KinderArt "Our mission is to create and provide art lesson plans that parents and teachers can use in their home and school classrooms. We aim to offer ideas that make use of readily available materials that won't break the bank."
This collection of art videos will support teachers and students in their quest to learn more about art.
Videos include: Matisse, Chagall, Michelangelo, pointillism, Britto, Chinese Dragon, Dali, Pollock, Tin Art, Kindness Rocks, Landscapes, Fashion Design, Collaborative Portraits, Zentangle, Howard, Dhurrie Rug, Magritte.
There are great ideas for lessons here, information about famous artists and great individual or collaborative projects.
Teachers can search their database for lesson ideas and art history assignments.
A collection of hands on arts and crafts activities for preschool to grade 5.
This site offers visual and performing art lessons from kindergarten through high school. Many of the lessons can be integrated into core subjects such as Math, Language Arts, Science, or Social Studies. Opportunities for creativity are some of the building blocks of child development and concept acquisition. Lessons are categorized by grade for easy retrieval.
This is a brief guide to NOTICING, with young narrators giving advice on how we all can be first class noticers every day!
Canadian art is a door to learning about a wide range of subjects.
The Art Canada Institute teacher resource guides presented here offer students the opportunity to study a multitude of subjects—from environmental awareness to activism, social justice to gender studies, politics to computer science (to name a few)—through the art and artists who have defined this country’s visual culture.
Following our provinces’ education curricula, the teacher resource guides provide multidisciplinary learning activities that reveal how Canadian art powerfully reflects our world so we can better understand it.
Activities for K-12!
Follow the instructions provided on this website to create some neat cherry blossom art using a recycled soda bottle.
This website outlines the steps to create a Chinese Flower Vase art project for kids.
This autumn collage focuses on squares and rectangles to give a tree a pixelated like appearance.
Students select a magazine image with a good range of cool and warm colours, then recreate the image with torn papers or fabric scraps.
In this activity, students tear pieces of magazines up to create an earth collage.
Follow the instructions here to create a collage landscape.
In this activity, students use various leaves and crayons to create a textured collage. This activity is a wonderful opportunity to explore colour, line, and texture, not to mention the bonus fun of going out and collecting leaves!
In this fun activity, students paint paper "swatches" then cut them out into geometric shapes, creating their own version of Paul Klee's famous creation, Castle and Sun.