Grades 2-8 learn about Pointillism, a form of painting that uses dots instead of smooth brush strokes. Students make their own pointillistic picture using markers.
Grades 2-8 learn about Ukiyo-e (Japanese block-print making) and the famous Ukiyo-e painting The Great Wave by Hokusai. Students then make their own block-print of waves using styrofoam, "inking" it with paint, and stamping it...
Grades 2-4 learn about Cubism, an influential art form in the twentieth century. Cubism is a style of art where "objects are broken up and reassembled in abstract form." Students create a cubistic star using different textures....
Grades 5-8 learn about Impressionism in art, specifically the paintings of Claude Monet. They paint water lilies using bleeding tissue paper to show Impressionism's focus on color and light without distinct lines. This lesson...
Grades 2-4 learn about Impressionism in art, specifically the paintings of Claude Monet. Students will paint Indian corn following Impressionism's style of light and color without distinct lines.
In this two-period art history lesson, grades 5-8 study the artistic trends in the Romantic era. In the first period they will sketch a landscape scene with pencil. In the second period, they will paint it with one color, adding...
In these two lessons, grades 5-8 will learn about the large stained-glass rose window in Notre Dame Cathedral built with radial balance. They will create their own window out of black construction paper and colored tissue paper....
2L Grade 2-4 Roman Shield Art and Laurel Wreath Lesson Plan
Grades 2-4 will learn about Roman art by making a shield. The element of shape is emphasized. At the end of the lesson plan, Susannna includes an additional idea: have students make a laurel wreath. Students' Shields The back of...
1U Grades 5-8, Art Lesson1 & 2, Ancient Egyptian Drawings (Shape)
Grades 5-8 will learn about art in ancient history, focusing on the art inside the Egyptian pyramids. They will draw pictures of people or architecture on sandpaper to replicate ancient drawings on the stone walls of the...
Grades 2-4 will learn about the earliest known style of art in human history--cave drawings. They imitate cave art by drawing lines on sandpaper, which provides a texture similar to cave walls. Student Cave Drawings Student...
