7th Grade Arts & Music Resources

Just print & play! Do you need engaging classical music activities or music sub plans? Each page offers creative ways for students to learn more about the music of this composer! The music of Duke Ellington is featured in this Ella Fitzgerald mini activity pack! Ella was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. She is known as "The Queen of Jazz!"

Themes: USA, American composers, Women's History Month, Black History Month

What's Included:

1-page Resource Guide - This guide will get you started quickly! Just print and play.

Listening Sheet Star Rating Guides - A reference sheet illustrates the five-star rating system included in most listening sheets. Each frame has a description, with one being "okay" and 5 stars as "Wow!"

Listening Sheets - There are no wrong answers! Students can note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from the musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more. There is a space for drawing and several non-musical elements to consider, such as animals and nature.

Weather and Emotions Listening Sheets

Weather is a recurring theme in classical music. Does a musical piece remind the listener of a snowy day or a cheerful sunny afternoon? Students can select the weather symbols that come to mind. Is the music happy or sad? A set of emotional characters allows your group to pick the feelings that best relate to a piece of music.

2 Biography Pages - Fact sheet (1 or 2 facts are already provided, a box to paste/draw the composer's portrait, and a birthday box to color in and decorate cupcakes! A duplicate blank page is included for students to do their own research.

Composer Research Sheet - Students can use their favorite reference materials to compile a full page of facts about the composer's home country. Some of the research options include capital, continent, population, food, and more.

Composer Rating Activity - There are more options to profile the composer on the rating sheet, including which season and musical style they belong to. This can also be used as a listening sheet or as a bulletin board display.

Word Composer Activity - The classic letter puzzle, students can use all the letters from the composer's full name to create new, shorter words and record their scores. Add a timer for an extra challenge.

Musical Selections (two pages per piece)

1. Take the 'A' Train
2. It Don't Mean a Thing
3. The E and D Blues

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the arts of Sub-Saharan Africa!

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa Passage (2 pages)
• 10 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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Visual Arts Artist of the Month. Praise your students by adding their artwork on display.

Dive into the rich tapestry of Black history with our Ultimate Black History Month Educational Bundle, meticulously crafted for educators passionate about providing a comprehensive, interactive, and engaging learning experience. This bundle combines a variety of resources, ensuring a well-rounded approach to teaching pivotal moments and figures in Black history. Suitable for grades 4-8, these resources are perfect for integrating into ELA, Social Studies, Art, and more.

1. Black History Month Athlete Trading Cards - Interactive Digital & Print Resource: Engage and educate your students with this interactive set of athlete trading cards. Celebrate the achievements of influential Black athletes with this 60-slide resource, perfect for classroom activities, creative projects, and bulletin board displays.
2. Claudette Colvin STAAR Test Prep Text (Grades 6-8) - FREEBIE: Dive into the inspiring story of Claudette Colvin with this STAAR test prep text. Designed for students in grades 6-8, this resource not only enriches students' knowledge about an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement but also sharpens their test-taking skills.
3. MLK 3 Interactive Timelines, Bulletin Boards & Door Decor: Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with interactive timelines and visually appealing decor. This resource is perfect for creating an educational environment that celebrates MLK's journey and teachings, inspiring students through interactive learning and creative expression.
4. Black History Month Digital Resource - 45 Google Slides, 15 Texts, Video & Writing: This comprehensive digital resource is a treasure trove of information, featuring 45 Google Slides, 15 texts, videos, and writing prompts. It's designed to provide a rich educational experience, sparking discussions and deepening understanding.
5. Civil Rights Movement Song Analysis (Grades 5-8) - Valentine's Day Special: Analyze the profound messages in songs from the Civil Rights Movement with this unique resource. It's an engaging way for students to connect with history through music, enhancing their analytical skills and emotional understanding of the era.
6. Color & Discover Modern Heroes of Black History Month - Freebie: This creative resource allows students to learn about modern heroes of Black History Month through coloring activities. It's a fun, engaging way to introduce younger students to influential figures and their contributions.
7. Claudette Colvin STAAR Test Prep Text (Grades 6-8) - FREEBIE (Duplicate): Reinforce your students' understanding and appreciation of Claudette Colvin's courageous stand during the Civil Rights Movement with this STAAR test prep text. This resource doubles the opportunity to integrate critical reading and historical knowledge into your test preparation activities.

Each resource in this bundle is thoughtfully designed to cater to different learning styles and classroom needs, making it the perfect package to explore, celebrate, and honor Black History Month in your classroom. Equip your students with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a deep appreciation for the contributions and stories of Black individuals with our Ultimate Black History Month Educational Bundle.

This Day of the Dead bundle contains 3 multicultural lessons - perfect to bridge the time between Hispanic Heritage Month and Día de los Muertos with hands-on, engaging projects for your upper elementary students. These three lessons each have multiple variations, are cross-curricular, and contain so many extras.

This bundle includes the following resources:

Hispanic Heritage Art Lesson Day of the Dead Art Sugar Skull

Hispanic Heritage Art Project | Frida & Diego Calavera Collage

Day of the Dead Kirigami Calavera

This bundle includes:

• Detailed, step-by-step project instructions with photos for each of the 3 lessons
• Literacy and cross-curricular connections
• Hispanic Heritage Month information
• Day of the Dead fact sheet
• Bilingual, written student instructions for kirigami lesson
• Assessment ideas
• National Core Art Standards and TEKS for 2 of the lessons
• Drawing guide for Calaveras differentiated for different learning styles

plus much more!!

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Hispanic Heritage & Day of the Dead Mega Arts Bundle

Hispanic Heritage Day of Dead Art Project Molas

Hispanic Heritage Elementary Cactus Art Lesson

Hispanic Heritage Art Project Sombreros

Bilingual Labels & Resources for Art Room & Dual Language Classroom

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Looking for a thought-provoking, creative activity to pair with your Wonder novel study? This acrostic poem and "Design Your Own Choose Kindness Shirt" art activity are just what you need to inspire your students while reinforcing themes of kindness, empathy, and self-expression!

Recommended for grades 5-8.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

✨ Acrostic Poem Template: Students use their names to craft thoughtful poems inspired by the story and its powerful message. It’s perfect for encouraging critical thinking and creativity.

✨ Kindness T-Shirt Design Activity: Have your students imagine they’re creating their own “kindness campaign” by designing a T-shirt with a positive message or a powerful quote from the book. This hands-on activity promotes individuality, self-expression, and classroom collaboration.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR YOUR CLASSROOM OR HOMESCHOOL:

✔️ No Prep, Easy to Use – Just print and go!

✔️ Aligned with SEL Themes – Focus on empathy, respect, and inclusivity.

✔️ Fun and Flexible – Use as a quick activity, a station in your classroom, or as part of a larger unit on Wonder.

✨ BONUS: These activities also make a great bulletin board display to celebrate your students’ creativity and showcase the lessons learned from Wonder.

Love this freebie? Take your Wonder novel study to the next level!

Check out my comprehensive Wonder Novel Study with over 100 pages of engaging activities that dive deeper into character analysis, themes, literary devices, and much more. It’s packed with tools to inspire rich discussions and critical thinking—all aligned to standards and designed for grades 5-8.

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Please use a computer to download and not your phone.

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Unleash your students' creativity and celebrate the magic of music with these Taylor Swift-Inspired End of Era Coloring Pages! Perfect for a range of grade levels, these unique coloring sheets are designed to mark the end of the school year with a harmonious blend of art and fun.

What's Included:

• 8 Coloring Pages
• Educational Value: Enhance fine motor skills, color recognition, and creative expression while subtly incorporating the joy of music into your classroom activities.
• Variety for All Ages: Our pages range from simple designs for younger students to more detailed and complex patterns for older children, ensuring every student finds something they love.
• End of Year Celebration: Use these pages as a fun and relaxing activity to commemorate the end of the school year, allowing students to unwind and reflect on their accomplishments.
• Printable Easy-to-print PDF files
• Versatile Use: Perfect for art lessons, end-of-year activities, classroom decor, or as a special gift for students to take home.

Benefits for Teachers:

• Engagement: Keep students engaged and excited as they color their favorite Taylor Swift-inspired scenes and motifs.
• Stress Relief: Provide a relaxing and enjoyable activity that helps students wind down after a busy school year.

Ideal For:

• Classroom Use: Art projects, free-time activities, or a creative end-of-year celebration.
• Gifts: Great for creating personalized gifts for students to remember their school year by.

Myself the Elf : Christmas craft for coloring!
Elf Yourself in this fun & creative Holiday writing activity!

Add your own photos!
Color, cut, & glue your elf to the writing page.

Includes 2 pages : Elf coloring page & writing page.

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Make your Christmas Holiday Party Crafts fun with this engaging, hands-on Christmas Snowflake Kids craft making activity! This includes 2 low-prep Christmas Snowflake kids crafts templates perfect for having fun for the Christmas holiday. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in fun craft making with 2 snowflakes by cutting out the pieces, coloring, gluing the parts together and decorating. Students will love putting together their snowflake activities together by using their problem solving skills through these fun activities, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after reading a story about snowflakes, catch snowflakes on black paper or sing a song about snowflakes. Print in black and white.

Here's what you'll get:

• 2 snowflake designs

• easy to follow directions

Your students will be crafting Christmas holiday snowflake crafts with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

These activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes printable templates to create each activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the elf pages, cut everything out, color, decorate, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Print in black and white for coloring and in color for easy assembly. You can make these into puppets, dance around the room with them while listening to Christmas music, or use to decorate your room with.

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→ Pin the Nose on the Reindeer Game
→Christmas Holiday Build a Nutcracker Craft Activity
→ Christmas Build a/Crown/Mask Santa, Christmas Tree, Gnome, Reindeer, Elf,Snowman

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Bring Thanksgiving fun to your classroom with these easy, step-by-step directed drawings! Students can follow along to draw seasonal favorites like an acorn, piece of pie, turkey, turkey leg, squash, and a festive place setting. Designed to inspire creativity and enhance writing time, this pack makes it easy for students to add their drawings to writing projects, keeping them excited and engaged.

What's Included:

• 6 Thanksgiving/Fall-Themed Directed Drawings (Acorn, Pie, Turkey, Turkey Leg, Squash, Place Setting)
• Choice of Line Styles: Standard, Primary, or Drawing
• Large Cards
• Journal Strips for Easy Use in Notebooks or on Rings

Engage your students this Thanksgiving season with easy, step-by-step directed drawing pages! This Thanksgiving pack includes guided drawing sheets for creating holiday images like an acorn, piece of pie, turkey, turkey leg, squash, and a place setting. Students can use these drawings to spark ideas for writing and storytelling, making it a perfect addition to writing centers or independent activities.

Perfect For:

• Writer's Workshop & Creative Writing
• Independent Work & Centers
• Early Finishers & Homework
• Journal or Ring-Bound Use
• Sub Plans

With primary and standard-lined pages as well as journal strips, this pack provides versatile options for every classroom setup. Use it to boost students' creativity while encouraging them to express themselves through both drawing and writing!

Keywords: Thanksgiving directed drawing, step-by-step Thanksgiving drawing, Thanksgiving drawing activities, primary lined drawing pages, Thanksgiving writing prompts, drawing and writing centers, Thanksgiving journal strips

This fun exercise helps students become very good at plotting points on the coordinate plane. The exercise combines a love middle school students have for drawing with an essential mathematical skill.

Students learn to write down the coordinates of simple drawings accurately. They also learn to plot the coordinates of their friends accurately onto the coordinate plane.

X-coordinate, Y-coordinate, ordered pairs, coordinate plane, Cartesian Plane

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Looking for a way to have some fun while learning music? Look no further. This Graphic Scores Unit will have your students exploring how to represent sound using graphics and composing in no time! There are 3 main lessons included in this unit, however, the last lesson will likely take 6-8 lessons to put together and perform. This unit is one I have used with my own students so I know how much fun they have with it! The great thing with graphic scores is you don't really need any instruments to compose which makes this unit even better if you're teaching music on a cart or have limited resources available.

Overview:

This graphic score short unit exposes students to what a graphic score is. They get to represent sound using graphics and compose their own graphic score using found sounds. Students will learn how sound and music can be represented using graphics. They will practice representing a short piece of music through graphics. After, they will represent common soundscapes using their own graphics and will then create their own graphic score to perform. I created this in Google Docs/Slides so that you can customize this unit to your own unique needs.

Learning Goals:

• We are learning how to represent sounds and music using non-traditional notation.
• We are learning to compose a piece of music using found sounds and represent our sound using graphics.

Success Criteria:

• I can represent sound using graphics.
• I can compose a piece of music with a group and perform it using my score.

What’s Included:

• Lesson Plans and Ideas
• Google Slides Lesson on Graphic Scores (including original composition to practice creating graphic scores)
• Graphic organizer for students with fill in the blanks about graphic scores
• Graphic organizer for students to represent original composition as a graphic score
• Graphic organizer for students to represent soundscapes using graphics
• Graphic score for students to create their own graphic scores
• Rubrics to mark graphic score assignments
• 3 Stars and a Wish for peer feedback

Valentine's Day candy, cellphone, hearts, flowers, teddy bears, and lots more...! 50 coloring pages for Valentine's Day! Great value for pre-filled and fill in your own messages on black and white images for coloring, decorating, etc... Messages Include: Be Mine Be My Valentine Happy Valentine's Day I Love You Love Many uses: color, cut and paste onto construction paper, use as story starters, placemats, Valentine's Day cards, display for parent night, etc... Lots of fun to make and give for Valentines!

Enhance your students' understanding and mastery of element of art color with this engaging and comprehensive Color Practice Drawing Worksheet. This worksheet offers a fun and interactive way for students to explore and apply their knowledge of color theory.

Could be a great refresher exercise in class for students, or easily left for a sub assignment.

Need other elements of art resources or a quick sub plan?

Implied Texture - Element of Art Practice Drawing Worksheet

Line- Element of Art Practice Drawing Worksheet

Form- Element of Art Practice Drawing Worksheet

Value- Element of Art Practice Drawing Worksheet

Looking for a thoughtful and creative gift for your teacher? This Fingerprint Art Keepsake Printable is the perfect way to show your gratitude! Easy to use and filled with sentimental value, this keepsake makes a wonderful gift for Teacher Appreciation Week, end-of-year celebrations, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or any occasion throughout the school year.

What’s Included:

• A beautifully designed printable template (ready to download and print).
• Space to add children’s fingerprints to create a unique and personalized gift.
• Optional: Add the students’ names and the teacher’s name to make it even more special!

Why Teachers Will Love It:

This keepsake captures the love and appreciation of the entire class. The fingerprints symbolize the lasting impact a teacher has on their students, making it a cherished memento they’ll treasure for years.

How to Use:

1. Download the template after purchase.
2. Print it on high-quality paper or cardstock.
3. Have each student add their fingerprint with non-toxic ink.
4. Add names (optional), frame it, or gift it as is!

This simple yet heartfelt gift is ideal for students, parents, or room moms looking to give something memorable and meaningful to their teacher.

Perfect for:

• Teacher Appreciation Week
• Christmas or holiday gifts
• End-of-year gifts
• Valentine’s Day surprises

Fun Pizza Slice Mandala Coloring Pages For Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice pre-writing skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun gift for National Pizza Day!

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WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 30 Coloring Pages

• ( PDF + PNG )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF + PNG files that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

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This is the THIRD of SEVEN color theory unit activities that cover the main types of color schemes-

-primary and secondary

-monochromatic

-analogous (current)

-complementary

-triadic

-tetradic

-hue, saturation, & value

All seven activities have a different theme, keeping students engaged throughout the unit. For this particular activity, it has a space theme.

What will the students be doing?

The students will be creating a poster in Canva that follows the knowledge of the scheme being covered. Then, the students will answer a reflective question about that scheme. I have provided all of the questions, however you can change and edit anything you would like with these templates.

What will you receive?

You will receive a PDF that contains the link to my Canva template. This activity is used with free Canva elements only. This template includes a cover page, directions page, page reserved for student poster, and a reflection page.

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This biography WebQuest has 10 questions that explore life, achievements, and contributions. Each question has a link for students to explore.

An answer key is included on the final page of the answer key document.

This back-to-school activity is geared towards grades 4-6 and will have your students getting to know one another by presenting their "brown bag" to the class.

This six-page activity includes:

• A description of the task + brown bag poetry
• A modelled example
• A worksheet on describing symbols
• A self-assessment
• A peer assessment
• A teacher assessment

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