Art Teaching Resources
An extensive collection of teaching resources to use when learning about arts in your elementary classroom. Use the customizable banner widget to make an arts related display banner for your classroom. Also provided are posters that highlight the elements of visual arts, drawing on demand activities, vocabulary word wall cards and color theory materials. Use the color posters as displays in your classroom to assist students in learning the different colors and their associated names.
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Masked in Mystery Activity
A fun art activity to explore shape through the creation of a mask.
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Plumping It Up Activity
A fun art activity to explore form in a two-dimensional work.
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Organic Shape Puzzle
A puzzle focusing on the identification of organic shapes.
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Easter Basket Agamograph Art Activity
An Easter-inspired agamograph art activity.
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Organic Shape Search Worksheet
A fun art activity to explore organic shape.
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Easy Origami Animals Worksheet and Step-By-Step Instructions for Kids
Make origami animals with your students with printable step-by-step instructions plus a 2D shapes worksheet for your math lesson planning.
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Visual Arts Elements Color PowerPoint - Lower Years
An 18-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating color in Visual Art.
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I See My Dream — MLK Art Activity
Encourage students to share their dreams for the future with an MLK Art activity.
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Cylinder Sculpture Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of warm or cool colors.
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Visual Arts Elements Color PowerPoint - Middle Years
A 22-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating color in Visual Art.
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Visual Arts Elements Color PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 21-slide teaching presentation to use when investigating color in Visual Art.
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Giant Coloring Sheet – Community Map
A large, printable coloring sheet featuring a map of a community for your whole class to use in a variety of ways.
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How to Draw for Kids - Teddy Bear
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a teddy bear!
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How to Draw for Kids - Ninja Boy
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a ninja boy!
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How to Draw for Kids - Monster
Teach your students how to draw a monster with this Halloween directed-drawing activity.
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Cinderella Collage Task
A collage task relating to Cinderella.
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How to Draw for Kids - Girl
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a girl.
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How to Draw for Kids - Boy
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of a boy.
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How to Draw For Kids - Alien
A task card that helps students draw an illustration of an alien!
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Luck of the Draw-ing Prompts
A set of 35 drawing prompt cards.
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Tessellation Poster
Making tessellating patterns is fun!
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Pattern Worksheet - Rectangles
A worksheet creating a pattern using rectangles.
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Visual Arts Elements, Subject Matter, and Composition Posters
A set of four posters examining visual arts elements, subject matter, and compositions in art class.
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Visual Art Elements Activity Task Cards
A set of 28 art activities that explore each of the art elements.
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Self-Portrait Template
Use a printable self portrait template to get to know your students.
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12-Part Color Wheel Template and Color Theory Worksheets
A set of warm/cool color wheel worksheets featuring the 12 primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
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Visual Art Elements Poster
A poster that visually explains the seven visual art elements.
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Value Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'value' as a visual art element.
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Color Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'color' as a visual art element.
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Visual Art Elements Poster Pack
A set of eight posters explaining each of the visual art elements.
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Directed Drawing - How to Draw a Piece of Cake
Use this directed drawing activity of a piece of cake to help students develop their listening skills in the classroom.
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Texture Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'texture' as an art element.