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Free middle school visual arts projects
My Future's So Bright FREEBIE | End of the Year Activities
Are you looking for a fun way to begin or end your school year? This art and writing activity is the perfect way to do just that! Students will get creative as they bring their futures to life through the lenses of their oversized sunglasses.This project is perfect for...✔️ ...an end-of-the-year activity to reflect on their summer plans.✔️ …beginning of the year activity to reflect on their upcoming school year or what they want to be when they grow up.✔️ …student time capsules! These would be a
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1st - 6th
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Thanksgiving Activities Free: How to Draw a Turkey, Scarecrow and Pilgrims.
Free Thanksgiving Activity: How to Draw Scarecrow, Turkeys and Pilgrims for Thanksgiving. I designed this activity for the classroom teacher, so it's easy for you to make fun, memorable, and lasting art projects with your students in the classroom! Art teachers will love this packet because it has handouts, coloring sheets, and examples to use in your classes. Follow along with my "6 Easy Steps" handouts to make one, or all, of the following Thanksgiving pictures:1 Scarecrow2 Turkey Designs1 B
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K - 9th
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Free Christmas Activity: Shaving Cream Marbleized Christmas Ornaments
This is the coolest art lesson you will ever do with your kids! I show you how to make marbleized paper Christmas ornaments using shaving cream and watercolors...in the end, it's magic!I have taught this lesson literally hundreds of times to age groups ranging from 3 years to high school gifted programs. It’s fun, it’s messy, and it’s really magical. That is why I call it my “magic trick.” I haven’t met a kid yet that didn’t get really excited when the magic is “revealed” at the end. However, wi
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PreK - 12th
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FREE Romero Britto - Art Lesson - Great Art Sub plan or lesson plan
Romero Britto. This lesson was published in Arts and Activities Magazine in January 2012.This lesson is ideal for grades 5 and above. Ever wonder why art teachers only teach about dead artists when there are so many great, living artists to teach about? Well, I wondered that when I saw the work of Romero Britto during the pre-game super bowl show several years ago.I designed this lesson with this artist as the inspiration. Here, you will get all the steps for this lesson and the resources I used
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5th - 12th
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Elements of Art 3-D Cube Project
This printable includes everything a student will need to create a fun 3-D cube model of the elements of art! In this activity, students will illustrate 6 sides of a cube with examples of the elements of art. They will create a design for the following elements: line, form/shape, color, value, texture and space. Students will then cut out their cube and glue the tabs together to create their own miniature sculpture! Finished cubes can be placed on table for a colorful, fun display, or attached t
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5th - 12th
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Design Your Own Food Truck: Paper Template for Prototype
This document is a paper template of a food truck for students to design on paper before their digital version.
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7th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Design Challenge - Design Your Own Food Truck
Free Fall Activity: Pattern Pumpkin Art Project with Free Printable Template
Free Pattern Pumpkin Art Project with Printable Pumpkin Template: This free lesson includes all the steps you need to complete this art project with your students + the printable pumpkin template. Whether you are a classroom teacher, art teacher, or parent, this fun pattern pumpkin project is for you! I hope having my art lesson in this format will save you time and make this lesson easy to execute.There are so many great ways you can use this project. This lesson can be used in so many ways...F
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1st - 6th
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FREE Winter Activity | Shaving Cream Marbleized Paper Snow Globes
FREE Winter Activity - Shaving Cream Marbleized Paper Snow Globes. This lesson uses one of the funnest art techniques that you will ever do with your kids!I have taught this marbleized paper technique--the central core of this lesson--literally hundreds of times to age groups ranging from 3 years to high school gifted programs. It’s fun, it’s messy, and it’s really magical. That is why I call it my “magic trick.” I haven’t met a kid yet that didn’t get really excited when the magic is “revealed”
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2nd - 9th, Staff
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Symbolism Activity For Any Text: Making A Personal Crest (FREE)
This can be used as a fun introductory lesson on symbolism or as a beginning of the year activity for students to express who they are and decorate their new classroom. Students could also create crests to represent characters or individuals in a novel, short story, or nonfiction text.Included:*A crest template*Directions for completing the crest*The meanings of selected symbols *A grading rubric*Sample symbols to help students brainstorm*Common Core (CCSS) standardsFind More Skill-Based Resourc
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5th - 12th
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Tessellations and Translations (Art + Math Project)
Tessellation based patterns are fun, making a kind of math – art puzzle that your students design themselves. This project will walk your students through the process of designing and creating fabulous tessellated pattern artworks. All you need are pencils, rulers, scissors, transparent tape, and construction paper.
Download has Teacher Instructions and two ready-to-print pages of handouts with complete explanatory diagrams. This was designed to be an easy, accessible introduction to Tessellati
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5th - 10th
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Alvidres Twilight Cactus | Hispanic Heritage Month Art Project
Ines Alvidres is a Hispanic artist who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, but calls Beaumont, Texas her home. She credits her inspiration for the beautiful colors and abstract designs from the Tuahumara people and her cacti, birds, and flowers are full of every color of the rainbow.In this project, students will use all of the colors of the color wheel to create their desert scene, and include Alvidres' signature gold borders. It can be done with oil pastels, or by using acrylic or tempera paint and
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K - 8th
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*Student Project* Design Your Own School
The end of the school year is quickly approaching and if your students are similar to mine, they are getting extra anxious for summer break! I created this engaging student project to help keep my students focused now that all of the state testing is completed and our ELAR curriculum is coming to an end.
This project is a creative writing assignment. Students are designing their own school using a "School Handbook" template. I also attached my cover page and rubric that I gave my students to u
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3rd - 8th
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FREE Easter Activity | How to Draw a Bunny Rabbit Step by Step
Easter free resource: How to draw a bunny! Use this handout to direct your students through drawing a fun, contemporary bunny just in time for Easter. Use my handout and step-by-step instructions (including a link to a video) to make it easy for each student to successfully draw their own bunny--you might have some fun, too, drawing with them! This handout guides kids through the basic process of drawing their bunny. I encourage you to have kids use their imagination to put their own touch on th
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K - 6th
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Poppy Art Project | Remembrance Day Canada | Free Art Lesson
This art project uses simple materials to create a watercolour painting of poppies. Step-by-step instructions help you and your students through a beautiful project for your classroom plants unit or for Remembrance Day. It is a sample project from our Plants Inspired Art Projects resource.This resource is part of our Plant Growth Unit.This stunning resource includes:complete lesson plan with step-by-step instructions with modifications to differentiate for your students (or your available suppli
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3rd - 6th
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Vincent van Gogh Swirling Landscape Art Project (Power Point file)
Vincent van Gogh Landscapes - Teach your students about landscape with this fun and easy Vincent van Gogh PowerPoint. You may also like:Vincent Van Gogh Collaboration PosterStarry Night Collaboration PosterFamous Faces of Art HistoryUse my PowerPoint that breaks down the three parts of a landscape; foreground, middleground, and background. Using Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, students will learn about the parts of a landscape and create their own version of Starry Night. This is a PowerPoint
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3rd - 8th
"No Taxation without Representation!" Poster Project
I created this project to reinforce the concept of taxation without representation. I wanted students to express their understanding of the frustration colonists felt with the unfair taxation imposed by Parliament.
This simple freebie contains a teacher notes page, project information page, grading sheet, and picture examples of posters.
This project was so much fun! When I created this assignment for my students, I expected nice, ordinary posters. That’s not what they turned in, however! I
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4th - 6th
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FREE Vincent van Gogh Inspired Sunflower Collaborative Vase Art Project
Free Vincent van Gogh Art Lesson: Sunflower Collaborative Vase Art Project. This free lesson includes all the steps you need to complete this art project with your students. Teachers are the first to make gifts for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and every holiday in between. One year, in 2014, I decided my students and I would make gifts for the teachers at my school.We made collaborative Van Gogh sunflower vases where each student contributed their own flower, and then I assembled them into a vase
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PreK - 6th
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Line Drawing Worksheet - Middle School Art - High School Visual Art Sub Plan
This easy-to-use line drawing worksheet is great for middle or high school art classes and works great as a sub plan, for distance learning, homeschool art, or art in the classroom. Students learn how to draw using simple guide marks. Included is a worksheet and handout in both PDF and Google Slide format with the reference image to draw from, a rubric, and links to a video demonstration that students can click digitally or scan on the printed version. This art lesson typically follows my Cont
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6th - 12th
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Gemstone Painting & Color Theory Presentation
This Google slide Presentation will show students how to draw a gemstone from observation and paint the value shapes using matching tints, shades, and tones as well as how to create a color palette based on the colors in their chosen gemstone.
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8th - 12th
End of the Year activity Craft Glasses Last day of school It's Graduation Day
Need a fun and safe way to celebrate the End of the Year? Try these Craft Glasses Last day of school with your students!Color and black & white version.A printable PDF Version.Remember, if you are not following me yet on TPT, be sure and do so! I always list my free and new products at 50% off for the first 48 hours!
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PreK - 6th, Staff
Storyboard - Blank Storyboard for Video Production or Film Projects
Blank Storyboards for student video productions projects. This consists of two story boards. The first storyboard consists of 9 boxes front and back. The second storyboard is a double sided. The front side consists of 9 boxes on page 1 (first side), and six boxes with a prop list completion form on page two or the second side. This is an excellent addition to your Video Production class.Related:• Introduction to the Video Camera / Camcorder - PowerPoint / Google Slides• Nine Basic Camera Shots
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Candy Cane Outline
I use this outline with my 2nd graders when we learn about basic shading techniques and what tints/shades are. I found that having the candy cane already drawn out helps them to better focus on how they are coloring (direction/pressure) and how white and black can change colors.
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2nd - 6th
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FREEBIE Sample of Virtual Field Trip Across Canada | Digital Slides
Here is a free sample of my task: Virtual Field Trip: Across Canada. Here you will find the creation of the Passport Slide and one province slide. If interested for the other content for this task, please purchase the full version found in my TpT store. This task can be done virtually or in-person. I hope you and your students enjoy it - I know mine sure did! Google Slides Version HerePDF Version HereOverview of What the FULL version of this Resource Includes:Virtual Field Trip Intro. SlidesProv
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3rd - 6th
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STEAM Activity- "The Milk Experiment"
Students will love watching colors mix as they participate in this easy science experiment! The Milk Experiment gives students hands on experience with unique physical changes, allowing even the youngest students to start understanding the basics of physical sciences.This product contains the following:InstructionsLab sheetLike this product? Check out my States of Matter Unit!Click the green FOLLOW button to get updates on freebies, sales, and new products! New products are 50% off for the first
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1st - 6th
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