Back to School Art Lesson Challenge Cards, 40 Drawing Prompts and Art Activities

40 Back to School Art Lesson Challenge Cards that are perfect for Back to School Themed art practice and to reinforce Art Making Skills, the Elements of Art, art education concepts and techniques, and Creative Thinking and Experimentation learned in your classroom through a Choice-Based, Flexible Learning approach.

Use these art lessons as a mini-lesson or exploration, practicing learned art techniques or skills, use for sub lessons, as homework, glue-in sketchbooks, art centers, use as art warm-ups or bell ringers, art exit tickets, or use as art when-you’re-done activities (perfect to pair with other Back to School Art Lessons, Resources, and Units).

Each of the 40 Daily Art tasks are half-page size to save printing paper and to allow an ideal size for kids to explore and experiment with. Use one a day for Back to School Art Practice OR pick and choose task cards you want to assign to your students.

These Back to school Challenge Cards are all black line ready for easy printing!

ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:

Inside the Art Challenges, you will find Choice-Based inspired Art Task cards that reinforce and allow students to practice Art Making, Creativity & Experimentation, and Drawing Skills. You can choose to use one a day, as a warm-up, daily art challenge, bell ringer, exit ticket, art centers, or Art homework. Use them all or you can pick and choose which tasks students will complete to expand their creative thinking!

Themed Art Challenges are great for further art skills, techniques, and knowledge practice and are all completed on the half-page sheets so they are small enough to complete in a short amount of time while providing necessary opportunities to practice art to allow mastery and understanding.

BENEFITS OF ART CHALLENGE CARDS IN YOUR CLASSROOM:

Art challenge cards can be a fantastic addition to a classroom, offering a range of benefits that enhance the learning experience and foster creativity in students. Here are some key advantages:

1. Sparking Creativity: Art challenge cards often present unique and open-ended prompts that encourage students to think creatively and outside the box. This can help stimulate imagination and inspire innovative approaches to art.
2. Promoting Individual Expression: Each student interprets an art challenge in their own way, allowing for personal expression and individual artistic styles to shine through. This can be particularly empowering for students, helping to build confidence in their abilities and ideas.
3. Enhancing Problem-Solving Skills: Many art challenges require students to think critically and solve problems creatively. This helps develop important cognitive skills that are applicable both in and outside the art room.
4. Providing Flexibility: Art challenge cards can be used in a variety of ways, from quick warm-up activities to longer, more in-depth projects. This flexibility makes them a valuable tool for adapting to different classroom settings and time constraints.
5. Encouraging Collaboration and Communication: When used in group settings, art challenge cards can facilitate teamwork and communication among students. They can share ideas, provide feedback to each other, and collaborate on joint projects, fostering a sense of community and mutual respect.
6. Catering to Diverse Learning Styles: Art challenges can be tailored to suit different learning styles, ensuring that all students can engage in a way that suits them best. Whether a student is a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner, art challenge cards can be adapted to meet these diverse needs.
7. Easy to Integrate into Curriculum: Art challenge cards can be seamlessly integrated into existing art curricula, aligning with various themes, techniques, and learning objectives. They offer a dynamic way to reinforce lessons and concepts already being taught.
8. Reducing Planning Time for Teachers: With pre-made prompts and ideas, art challenge cards can save time for teachers in planning lessons and activities. They provide a ready-to-use resource that can be easily implemented.
9. Offering Continuous Learning Opportunities: Since each card presents a new challenge, they provide endless opportunities for learning and exploration. Students can continually be challenged and engaged throughout the school year.
10. Building a Positive Learning Environment: The fun and playful nature of art challenge cards can help in creating a positive and enjoyable learning environment. This not only makes art classes more engaging but can also improve overall student participation and enthusiasm.

MEDIUMS & MATERIALS:

✂ Use these Art Tasks & Challenges with your choice of art mediums! ✂ You can choose to direct students for which art mediums to use OR you can give them full student choice. Some art mediums you can use could be: wax crayons, colored pencils, felt markers, watercolor paints, soft pastels, oil pastels, or tempera paint. Perfect for choice-based experimentation and flexible learning!

WHAT IS INCLUDED:

THIS ART CHALLENGE CARD RESOURCE INCLUDES: Non-Editable PDF Version

1) Rubric: Students will read and learn about how they will be assessed.

2) KWL: Students can complete before they start their daily art tasks.

3) Back To School Reading Page: Handout for introducing theme of resource to kids

4) Artwork Reflection: Students will reflect on several questions about the artwork they completed.

5) 40 Back to School Art Challenge Cards

6) National Standards for grades 3-7

7) Cover Page - For Coloring or to use as a cover page if you make a booklet with the cards.

8) Optional template for kids to glue on completed challenge cards if you wish to create a collection at the end.

9) Lesson Plan

10) Creative Process Reflection Page

11) 3 Stars and a Wish Reflection Page

12) Back to School Poem

NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. 

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NATIONAL ART STANDARDS:

GRADE 3:

VA:Cr1.1.3a - Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

VA:Cr1.2.3a - Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.

VA:Cr2.1.3a - Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

VA:Cr2.2.3a - Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

GRADE 4:

VA:Cr1.1.4a - Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.

VA:Cr1.2.4a - Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

VA:Cr2.1.4a - Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

VA:Cr2.2.4a - When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

GRADE 5-

VA:Cr1.1.5a - Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.

VA:Cr2.1.5a - Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.

VA:Cn10.1.5a - Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making

GRADE 6-

VA:Cr1.2.6a - Formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art

VA:Cr2.1.6a- Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.

VA:Cn10.1.6a - Generate a collection of ideas reflecting current interests and concerns that could

be investigated in art-making.

GRADE 7-

VA:Cr1.1.7a - Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

VA:Cr2.1.7a- Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

GRADE 8-

VA:Cr1.1.8a - Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media

VA:Cr2.1.8a - Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

VA:Cr2.2.8a - Demonstrate awareness of practices, issues, and ethics of appropriation, fair use, copyright, open source, and creative commons as they apply to creating works of art and design.

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