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Art Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- Faith Ringgold - Martin Luther King - Quilt Making
- Aborigine art makes good rainy day activity
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Pakistani Handicrafts Unit - Clay Seals
- Funky Western Designs[Variety]
- Helping Others - Giving Tree
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Black Africa - Tribal Art
- Sowa's Ark
- This inspirational craft activity is part of a "Day Camp in Hawaii Unit" suitable for after-school, summer school, scouts or other youth groups
- Students create their own state flag here
- Here's a lesson on trees that uses leaf rubbings and "The Giving Tree"
- Here's a lesson on landscape collage and depth
- In this inexpensive lesson, students mix primary colors to paint a pumpkin scene on a rock
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This idea involves creating "Penguin light bulbs"
- Here's an Idea to get students started in Writing about Themselves
- A Christmas lesson on the Advent Calendar (also a Religion lesson)
- This "Spaghetti Noodle" drawing exercise is a simple, but creative time filler
- This lesson on angles integrates science, social studies, and art
- This lesson idea on Shapes involves students creating Windsocks out of Shapes
- This lesson on assemblage/collage uses the works of Matisse
- Students create "Colorful Turkeys" in this Thanksgiving idea
- An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- In this idea, students think about what they look like when they sleep
- Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- An idea for making decorative Christmas ornaments out of Light Bulbs
- Metal Craft - engraving a foil-covered dish
- Kids love to get their hands in the "green mess" of these Christmas Wreath ornaments
- Here's an artistic idea for learning about Spiders
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- In this lesson, jazz inspires students to create a Romare Bearden style collage
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- Here students write about photographs
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- This poster idea teaches the differences between monocot and dicot plants
- African Ashanti dolls are created and discussed here
- In this clever Easter science experiment, students witness absorption, diffusion, and primary color combinations while creating coffee filter Easter egg
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This is an excellent "draw what you hear" lesson
- The third lesson is on Elements of Sculpture and involves Designing a Glyph of a Jaguar
- This human face drawing lesson provides generic drawing skills useful for learning in a variety of subjects
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- Here is a crafty Mother's Day necklace idea
- Patchwork Collage - arranging wrapping paper shapes
- A great, artistic idea for students to portray their feelings
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- Here is a simple and inexpensive Indian basket-weaving lesson
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- This is a procedure idea for creating construction paper silhouettes
- Here's a lesson on impressionism titled "What's Your Impression?"
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Click here to celebrate Chinese New Year with oriental music and lanterns
- Here's a Careers idea that involves Painting a T-Shirt
- This is an excellent lesson on national symbols that are unique to our country
- Here's a brief idea for creating "Junk Art" using everyday materials
- In "Community Helpers," students draw and write about their future occupation and how they will help the community
- Using Karo Syrup to create Art (Can be used for Special Education)
- Puppets for parent night
- Here's an idea for making Christmas ornaments from dough
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- This outdoor idea combines sidewalk chalk with music symbols
- In this two-part lesson, students learn about still life drawings and a Styrofoam plate method of printmaking
- A fun first-day journal activity
- Here's an idea for making a House with Food
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- A brief idea for making Poinsetta Christmas Ornaments
- Children will love making and giving this holiday gift craft - pinecone air fresheners
- Here's another Christmas Tree Craft idea - this one is edible!
- Here's a lesson plan on "Squiggle Art"
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- Use this clever idea to color salt with sidewalk chalk to create colored sand Valentine's Cards
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- This is an idea for crafting Christmas puzzle picture frames
- In this self-portrait lesson, students fit a face into a space
- Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson
- This collage lesson helps students create paper mosaic animals
- The secret ingredient in this painted stained glass window idea is cooking oil
- This is an edible physical and directional state geography lesson
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- This Art and Social Studies lesson is on Navajo Sand Paintings
- This is a holiday gift bag craft idea
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- This Painting lesson is on Janet Fish's Still Lifes
- You can create a Mother's Day memory with this flower pot idea
- Here students express their emotions while taking a musical and artistic trip to the "Saint-Saëns" Zoo
- This idea involves making Thanksgiving collages from magazines
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- Here's a timely Thanksgiving Turkey Art project
- This lesson is on Multiplication Facts with the Numbers 3, 6, 7, and 9
- This is a solar system lesson with an art component
- In this lesson, students use yarn to illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant
- "Quilt 4 America" is the title of this idea for Coping with Terrorism
- Here students create a mural depicting how their community lives and works together
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- "Peter and the Wolf" introduces orchestra instruments in this lesson
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- Students experience Monet's work by painting with watercolors and torn paper in this lesson
- Students make Paper Flowers that Smell in this Valentine or Mother's Day Idea
- Lesson 1 involves looking at and talking about Mesoamerica and their Glyphs
- This Independence Day lesson idea yields student art work for a time capsule
- In this book-based activity, students cut, fold and shape paper into "The Magic Hat"
- Lesson 2 focuses on the Symbolic Meaning of Glyphs
- In this lesson students create work similar to Andy Warhol's Images and use computers
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This is an Easter lesson on patterns in art and math
- This lesson involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold to make a Quilt to Record History
- Here's an idea to reuse those Plastic Easter Eggs as decorations
- A lesson on Native American Pottery and Culture
- This is a changing seasons webquest
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- Art Term Bingo is a great after-lesson activity
- This lesson is called "The Wonderful World of Matisse"
- Jewelry Making - decorating salt dough pieces
- This idea is for creating a Snowman Picture Christmas Ornament
- These center activities serve as a delightful introduction to the common garden snail
- Make a class puzzle
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- This Easter lesson is called Egg Wrap and is on Circumference, Measurement, and Estimation
- Here is an idea to use songsheets to display student artwork as well as singing skills
- A Valentine lesson using various Styles of Media to create Heart-Themed Art
- In this creative lesson, students make an animal and choose an environment
- Waxed paper stained glass butterflies hangings are crafted here
- This lesson on Rainbows involves students creating a Crayon Resist
- In this texture lesson, students turn a shoe sole rubbing into a sole fish
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- Kids learn the names of the continents here by completing a challenging cut-and-paste activity and a descriptive T-chart
- Here's a good money idea - Christmas "ornament" shopping in class
- Here's a fun Easter egg project
- Memorial Day poppies are created here
- In this lesson, students craft and classify snowflakes
- This great New Year's lesson is called "Reflections: 2001" but can be used for any New Year
- This lesson idea is on color and paint palettes
- Here are 3 Native American Craft ideas
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Early American Tin Punch Ornaments are made here
- This helpful "Note to Art Teaching Assistants" contains a great clean-up song
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- In Lesson 4, students Carve a Glyph on Sandstone
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- Here's a simple craft idea for making a pinecone Christmas ornament
- Classroom Cave Art is a lesson incorporating visual art, reading, and early culture
- Another Holiday Craft idea - Clay Christmas Ornaments
- Students learn a paint brush program to create their own caricatures here
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- This lesson uses language arts to teach creative movement
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- Here's an idea for holding your own art exhibit
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Here are instructions for creating the Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli musical gourd rattle instrument used in hula dances
- Making 3-D snowflake magnets is a fun winter/holiday project
- "Dinosaur Prints" are created in this lesson
- Kindergartners use computer and ABC to create an original stamp pattern
- "Mosaic Flower Pots" are created using the Mosaic Direct Method above
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- Here's a great lesson/game for learning musical elements
- This is a craft idea for creating dinosaur treasure eggs
- Introduction to Pakistan's Handicrafts
- Here's an idea for a Holiday Calendar to countdown to Christmas (or other events)
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This excellent color wheel lesson introduces students to the moods, vocabulary, and theory of color.
- Here's a fun idea for an autumn centerpiece
- Creating a class birthday quilt from old cards brings the class together, teaches patterns, and how to tie
- Here is a "Baggie Butterfly" art project to complement an insect unit
- This lesson plan is on Picasso and involves creating Picasso-Style Art
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- In this lesson, "Little No Speak" helps young students cope with anxiety
- This art idea helps students express "How does that make you feel?"
- Young students make and decorate bean-filled coffee can shaker instruments here
- Here's an idea for Quilting "Squares of Hope" to help Cope with Terrorism Acts
- Pipe cleaners, Styrofoam blocks and imagination can create a 3-D rainbow over a lake, if you use this idea
- Here is an Evaluation section for the unit
- This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh's Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)
- Here is an art lesson on aboriginal art in Australia
- This lesson involves creating art with Easter eggshells
- After learning the cultural history of pottery, students design and make a functional piece here
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- This Thanksgiving Bulletin Board idea uses "Turkey Handprints"
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This is an outstanding multidiscipline integrated unit on Patricia Polacco: A Crafty Author <
- Ceiling tile masterpieces are created in this lesson
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- An interesting Art idea for creating "Holiday Rugs"
- This Craft idea is for making a Christmas Wishing Tree
- Tobacco/Smoking
- Students create art with a toy car rolled through paint in this clever idea
- Here is a great painting with sand art lesson for all ages
- Here students express themselves while decorating frog stencils
- This simple idea transforms plants (collected leaves) into animals (art project)
- Free form drawing makes this art idea take shape!
- Here is an idea for making colored sand and sand pictures
- Here's a idea that uses colored joint compound to mimic Van Gogh's heavy brushstrokes
- Here is a having fun with dance pictures art idea
- Zig Zag Zinnias are paper sculptures of flowers in a pot for Mother's Day or for teaching about different types of lines
- This idea involves developing a friendship book about a student's favorite friend
- Michelangelo and his painting of the Sistine Chapel are the subject of this lesson
- This "Guess What I did on my Summer Vacation" drawing idea is a great first-day icebreaker
- A lesson on the American Flag and its Symbols
- You can recycle your Candy Canes on Valentine's Day with this idea
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here's an idea to make a "Sandwich Book"
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- Start the first week of school off right with this fun idea
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
- The last lesson involves completing the Glyph Carving
- This simple idea creates a paper plate flower
- This lesson teaches the direct glue & grout method of Mosaics
- Students investigate and create flowers using inventive materials for an "April Showers - Bring Me Flowers" mural in this lesson
- In this idea, students create pictures from the squiggles and swirls drawn by their partner
- Here's a 4th of July lesson involving making a simulated fireworks display
- This idea combines making snowmen and rhyming
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Here is an idea to hang and save student art work beneath their self-portraits
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- This is a scanned picture of what the 4" x 3" squares and grid should look like
- This lesson is on the Commutative Property of Mathematics
- This Indo-Islamic art unit introduces students to Mughal miniature painting
- Paint a picture of what you want to be; an Art and Social Studies lesson
- Action painting art is created in this Jackson Pollock lesson
- This lesson involves creating Textured Rubbings
- This rainforest bird lesson is an introduction to research and CD art
- Children create "A Book of Many Colors" from magazine pages in this idea
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- Here's an idea for a first day of school "Class Puzzle" that shows each student's importance
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- A collection of Big Book Activities, dealing with the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
- A brief lesson idea on Art using pastels for Weather
- This lesson plan is on Cave Paintings and Historical Stereotypes
- A fun Thanksgiving idea for creating "Coffee Filter Turkeys"
- Students studyWhere the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak here and create new monsters
- This lesson explores music and color and our feelings about each
- This "Shape Ship" geometric art project also teaches the concepts of slide, turn, and flip
- This is a great no-nonsense presentation of "Art Classroom Rules"
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- Here students make and decorate holiday bells
- This well-developed lesson teaches the basics of "Innovative Wire Sculpture"
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- Parents will absolutely love this clever open house idea
- This idea involves using dried Leaves to make glitter art
- This is a good art filler activity - Musical Chairs with Art at each chair
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- "Scribble Music" is a great early year, break time or substitute plan
- Abstract art as a visual metaphor for modern music is the hypothesis explored here
- An idea for making Paper Stained Glass Windows
- If your school hasn't made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
- A brief Christmas activity idea for making 3-D Paper Bell Ornaments
- This clever Easter idea transforms egg cartons into ready-to-decorate baskets
- Here's a unique idea - Jell-O Painting!
- This art idea is for making an Easter basket out of a bleach jug
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This is an art history idea on Early American Limner Portraits
- This is a butterfly symmetry lesson
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Polyhedra and Intarsia
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- This 6-foot Mayan pyramid is created out of recycled materials
- This similar "All About Me" scrapbook idea yields a bulletin board, a classroom book and a teacher's keepsake
- Students create a stained glass "Rousseau's Jungle" here with gel glue and oil pastels
- "Cowboys at Christmas" is a unique multi-activity lesson teaching us appreciation for the "big gifts" we often take for granted
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- An excellent Art lesson for the first day of school called "My Favorite Things"
- This is a lesson on Ecuadorian Masapán bread dough sculpting
- This is an Overview of the unit with links to the other components
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- In this lesson students create Art from the Natural Dyes in Vegetables
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- Here's an idea for teaching about theme and variation in music
- Kid Pix software is used here to create an animal habitat and climate slide show
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- Here is a Rain Forest lesson involving painting animals
- Coconut turkeys are the "centerpiece" of this Thanksgiving Idea
- Here students create and draw onomatopoeia sounds with instruments and "The Listening Walk"
- This is an early childhood computer art idea using the Paint program
- This Thanksgiving Craft idea is called "Turkey Pins"
- Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside
- In this lesson, students create a 9/11 Remembrance Tapestry
- "Gumball Drawing" is a simple art lesson on using the circle tool in MS Paint
- This idea is for creating a "Robot" Valentine Mailbox
- This Art lesson involves Painting (or Drawing) Sunsets and Landscapes and some Geology study too
- This science and art lesson uses the book "The Very Busy Spider"
- In this computer lab project, KidPix is used to create mouse pads for holiday gifts
- Here's an idea for creating a Class Wreath using your incomplete puzzle pieces
- In this color wheel lesson, students learn about art history and color moods
- In this holiday idea, students draw an imaginary map of Santa's "North Pole" community
- Another Easter lesson idea, this one involves creating a "stuffed" picture
- This idea is called "Cave Man Zoo" and involves cave paintings
- This is a fun beginning of school lesson involving painting portraits with chalk
- After discussing infinity and Fabergé, students decorate paper Easter eggs in this idea demonstrating the "infinite" possibilities of human imagination
- Here students create their own version of Munch's paintingThe Scream
- Clay Seals - modeling designs in clay
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- Counting in Espanol
- Pointillism - Georges Seurat
- Leaving A Lasting Mark
