Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Category: Art
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El Greco: Drawing Tall People
Making a masterpiece like El Greco’s tall figures is easier for students when they use a magazine picture and cut it apart to s-t-r-e-t-c-h it. They trace over it to end up with a … View Full Lesson →
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Picasso Portraits
This art activity will take two sessions to finish. Once the paintings are finished, they need to dry before they are cut up into “Picasso Portraits”. (This second session will not take long.) In this … View Full Lesson →
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Christmas Potpourri Hangers
This is a beautiful, useful Christmas craft. Although this activity needs adult help for gluing, I have safely done this activity with grades 1 and 2. We collect clean metal lids and bits of ribbon … View Full Lesson →
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12 Christmas Ornaments
#1 Clothespin Rudolph Ornament: Materials for each reindeer ornament: 3 old-fashioned clothespins 6″ piece of 1/4″ wide red ribbon decorative cloth holly applique (craft or scrap booking store) 2 small googly eyes tiny red pompom … View Full Lesson →
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Christmas Tree Ornament or Gift Tag
Have students practise reusing old Christmas cards, bits of yarn or ribbon, and frozen juice lids to make beautiful Christmas tree ornaments. The only thing you need to add are the small doilies and the … View Full Lesson →
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Standing Snowmen
By cutting and folding four snowmen, then gluing the halves to other pieces, students get Standing Snowmen. All four snowmen can be decorated differently or all the same. The bottom of them all is flat, … View Full Lesson →
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Christmas Rudolph
Have students make a Christmas Rudolph that mom or dad will love to keep forever. Students trace their foot for the face and trace their hands for the antlers. Big brown eyes and a giant … View Full Lesson →
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Ripped Paper Art – Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens
This art lesson is easy enough for grades 1 and 2 but can be adapted for other grades as well. A huge amount of learning goes on in this lesson. Students learn about depth, foreground, … View Full Lesson →
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins
A little fabric paint and a little creativity, brushed on re-usable cloth napkins, makes a beautiful keepsake of each child’s hand print that can be used every Thanksgiving. Objectives: grade 1′s learn about the elements … View Full Lesson →
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Joseph Stella Art: Line Designs
Art is created using the 5 elements of design by drawing a focal point, with 10-12 lines radiating from it. Each space between the “lines” is a different size (“mass”) and each will be filled by a different art medium (pastels, paint, crayon…) and using a different method, creating different “textures”, “colours”, “shapes”, and “lines”. View Full Lesson →