For EVERYONE: This awesome website is full of hundreds of "how-to" art videos, mostly drawing videos, some painting, sculpture and even origami videos. Explore this website and I guarantee you will have a lot of ART FUN and increase your art skills too!
For 4th-5th Grade: Hey Everybody! Want to create a really cool Optical Illusion artwork? All you need is a piece of paper and pencil and then click on this website. It's easy and fun!
For ALL grades K-5: Practice your drawing and painting skills with this website. Have fun creating your designs!
For 3rd - 5th Grade: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous artists in the world. He was not only a painter, but an inventor, scientist, sculptor, and many more things. Learn all about him in this website.
All grades: Practice your drawing skills with this website. It allows you to watch the drawing videos step by step so you can draw at your own pace! Have fun!
All grades: This website has all kinds of fun art projects from drawing lessons, to cardboard crafts, weaving, paper mache and even ceramics! You can browse by grade level or by medium.
Art
| 5th Grade | 4th Grade | 3rd Grade | 2nd Grade |
| Optical Illusion Art |
Optical Illusion Art |
Lines | Lines |
| Portfolios | Portfolios | Shapes and Textures | Shapes |
| Tints and Shades |
Positive and Negative Space |
Silhouette Collage |
Texture |
| 1st Grade | Kindergarten | PreK | |
| Lines | Lines | ||
| Shapes | Shapes | ||
| Texture | Texture |
Turning a mistake into Art |
| 5th Grade | 4th Grade | 3rd Grade | 2nd Grade |
| Radial Symmetry |
Exploring Art from World Cultures |
Print Making |
Art around the World |
| Rotational Name Designs | Day of the Dead | Vampire Bat Print Leaf Wings | African Masks |
| CD Circle Weaves | God’s Eyes (Ojo De Dios) | Snow Globe Landscapes | |
| 1st Grade | Kindergarten | PreK | |
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The artworks of Vincent Van Gogh |
Our 4 Seasons | Our 4 Seasons | |
| Sunflowers | Fall Leaves | Fall Leaves | |
| Starry Night Swirls | Origami Winter houses | Origami Winter houses |
| 5th grade | 4th grade | 3rd grade | 2nd grade |
| Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing | Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing | Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing | Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing |
| Duplication Line Exercise | Duplication Line Exercise | Henri Matisse Paper Cut-Out Collages | Henri Matisse Paper Cut-Out Collages |
| Clay Coil Pots | Clay Folk Art Face Jugs | Clay Pinch Pots with animals | Clay Dinosaurs |
| 1st grade | Kindergarten | PreK | |
| Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing | Yearbook Cover Design Contest Drawing | Exploring the median of watercolor paints | |
| Positive and Negative Valentine Hearts | Positive and Negative Valentine Hearts | African painted necklaces | |
| Clay Fossil Fish | Clay Pinch Pots | MLK Peace Signs |
| 5th grade | 4th grade | 3rd grade | 2nd grade |
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Geometric Painting in one color scheme: Studying the famous artist Piet Mondrian |
Self-Portrait cut-magazine collage in Silhouette Profile |
Fraction Fish Collage with oil pastels |
Symmetry in nature: Butterfly Wings Artwork in warm and cool color schemes |
| Exploring Pottery Glazing | Painting our Clay Folk Art Face Jugs | Painting our Clay Pinch Pot animals | Painting our Clay Dinosaur/animal sculptures |
| Animal Art: Focusing on the element of Texture | Monochromatic Flower Artworks: Studying the famous artist Georgia O-Keeffe | Self-Portraits | Self-Portraits |
| 1st grade | Kindergarten | PreK | |
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Symmetry in nature: Butterfly Wings Artwork in primary and secondary color schemes |
Primary and Secondary Colors Paper plate prints - Exploring color theory and weaving |
Primary and Secondary Colors Paper plate prints - Exploring color theory and weaving
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| Painting our Clay fossil fish | Paint our Clay pinch pots | Art made from Recycled Materials | |
| Self-Portraits | Self-Portraits | Self-Portraits |
Art is an integral part of the total elementary school curriculum. Art builds opportunities for children to develop natural sensibilities through making and studying art. As students are guided through visual, tactile, and manipulative art experiences, they build important mental processes / areas.
The art standards guide the development of students' abilities in 7 areas: aesthetic understanding, creative thinking, perceptual awareness, artistic skills and knowledge, historical and cultural context, critical analysis, and connections to other disciplines.
Our elementary art program ensures that the students will understand the following:
- Imagination is important.
- There may be more than one answer to a question and more than one solution to a problem.
- Answers to a question need not be identical.
- Intrinsic satisfaction matters.
- Flexibility of thought is critical throughout the course of one’s work.
- Personal success stems from the care invested in one's own work and the ability to work cooperatively with others in a dynamic studio setting.
~ Excerpted from the Grades K-5 Visual Arts Introduction
