Middle School Art High School Art, Visual Journal Mixed Media Art Project Lesson

This art project pack is perfect for middle school art or high school art classes. This is an ongoing art lesson, ideal for using weekly in a semester or year long art class. Teach mixed media art, a range of art techniques, materials, and styles through this art lesson.

Are you looking to introduce visual journals into your classroom? This comprehensive resource includes all the materials you need to guide your students through the process of creating a visual journal. This art assignment is perfect for 4th-grade, 5th-grade, middle school art or high school art age students.

Perfect for art teachers looking to enhance their curriculum, this bundle includes detailed lesson plans, handouts, and prompts to inspire students to express themselves through art. Visual journals, or altered books, are a great continuous project for your visual art or English class. The visual journals can serve as a weekly, monthly, or year-long art project. 

Included with this art project BUNDLE:

⭐️11 back and front worksheets about various materials and how to use them (including collage, painting, lettering, India ink, image transfers, etc. tips and techniques)

⭐️Visual journal lesson plan

⭐️Visual journal book cover lesson plan 

⭐️Visual journal introduction PowerPoint

⭐️Visual journal book cover introduction PowerPoint

⭐️An information sheet for overseeing the project for teachers, including supply list

⭐️3 visual journal posters for inspiration

⭐️A timeline that breaks down how to introduce and continue the visual journal assignment

This provides everything you need to teach and facilitate a visual journal art project in a middle school art or high school art classroom. This is a very open-ended project, which can be challenging to teach, but these resources help guide the process.

❤️This assignment is always my students' and my favorite for the year. I have the chance to get to know them on a personal level and they get the chance to express themselves however they choose. It also frees up pre-planning for one day every week, you already know Friday is visual journal day. 

This could also be a fun assignment to periodically work on in an English course. Rather than focusing on the art element, writing prompts could be given to inspire visual and writing combinations in their journals. 

Try it today and see the difference it makes in your students' creativity and self-expression!

✅Check out the preview for a closer look at this visual journal bundle.

What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “AMAZING!!!!! The students loved doing the activities we have done so far and it's been very easy for me to implement.” - Abbie W.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Awesome resource! My advanced art students have been really enjoying working on their Visual Art Journals! Highly recommend this to every single middle/high art teacher!” - Art Lessons By Ms Diaz

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “WOW! Such a helpful set of resources, I am trying to incorporate more visual aspects into my ELA class and this is the way. Students love to do much more than write about what we are reading.” - Catherine W.

Check out my individual visual journal resource handouts here.

• I incorporate my visual journal lesson in all of my classes. This visual journal bundle is included in my Introduction to Art bundle.  The lesson plan and PowerPoint are included in my other curriculum bundles. 

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