Less than $5 Homeschool Arts & Music Activities

Take a deep dive with your students into the classical music appreciation world of Johann Sebastian Bach! These open SEL activities invite students to color their listening experience while hearing the selected music. Each selected piece of music has a unique ocean scene to explore. Check out the preview above for a closer look!

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of popular composers
• familiarity with a variety of musical periods
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of music
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within the music
• creative expression by choosing colors related to a musical theme

You'll find five unique ocean scenes for students to explore: mermaids, jellyfish, deep sea divers, starfish, and sea turtles. Students choose from emojis and seasonal nature-themed images to color, in addition to bubbles, fish, and other underwater surprises. There are no wrong answers!

Featured Classical Music

1. Toccata and Fugue
2. Fantasia and Fugue
3. Italian Concerto
4. Cello Suite no. 1
5. Magnificat

These ocean-themed listening activities are easy to implement - just print and play! The music is readily available on YouTube and your favorite streaming services. No musical training is required making these great for sub plans and summer send-home packets!

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!

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Doodling is great fun, but it also provides many developmental benefits for children. Doodling helps kids of all ages to develop and refine their fine motor skills, which is essential for writing, cutting and many other activities that children will do throughout their lives. In addition, doodling encourages visual analysis, increases the ability to concentrate, and boosts creative thinking. And of course, it’s just plain fun!

This packet includes 50 pages of doodle starters to inspire children.

Some ways to use these pages:

Give children a doodle page when they need a brain break.

Print just the pages you want to enhance a classroom theme or concept that you are studying.

Have the pages available for students who finish a lesson early.

Put them in your sub tub.

Use these in your “calming corner” for children who need help with self-regulation

A-Z Alphabet Wristband, the perfect blend of fun and learning for your little ones! This engaging craft activity sparks creativity while enhancing literacy skills in a delightful way.

Whether used in classrooms, at home, or during playdates, the A-Z Alphabet Wristband activity fosters imagination and strengthens foundational language skills. It's a hands-on experience that leaves a lasting impression, igniting a love for learning that lasts a lifetime. Get ready to watch your child's confidence soar as they proudly showcase their handmade creations!

What included in this resource:

- come in 2 versions: PDF (4 pages) and in power Point format (4 pages). You can edit the file whenever necessary.

Benefits for using the alphabet wristbands you created:

1. Engaging and Interactive Learning: The wristbands provide a hands-on and interactive way for students to learn the alphabet. By wearing the wristbands, students can actively participate, enhancing their engagement and learning experience.

2. Visual and Kinesthetic Learning: The wristbands feature letters of the alphabet along with corresponding visuals, such as the letter "A" for apple. This visual representation helps students associate the letter with its corresponding object, aiding in their understanding and retention of letter sounds.

3. Reinforces Letter Recognition: The wristbands serve as a constant reminder of the alphabet. By frequently wearing and looking at the wristbands, students reinforce their letter recognition skills and become more familiar with the shape and form of each letter.

4. Encourages Vocabulary Development: By having the visual representation of the letter and a corresponding word like "apple," the wristbands help expand students' vocabulary. They can associate the letter with the word and its meaning, promoting language development.

5. Personalized Learning Experience: Each student can cut out their own wristband and wear it, allowing for a personalized learning experience. Students take ownership of their learning and can proudly display their wristbands, promoting a sense of achievement and accomplishment.

6. Easy Reference Tool: The wristbands provide a portable and convenient reference tool. Students can refer to their wristbands whenever they need assistance in letter recognition, word formation, or even during writing activities.

7. Reinforces Fine Motor Skills: Cutting out the wristbands encourages the development and refinement of fine motor skills. Students practice their scissor skills, strengthening their hand-eye coordination and precision.

8. Fun and Motivating: Wearing the wristbands can be an exciting and enjoyable experience for students. The novelty factor of wearing a wristband with their chosen letter and associated word can create a positive and motivating learning atmosphere.

Overall, the alphabet wristbands offer numerous benefits, including interactive learning, visual and kinesthetic reinforcement, vocabulary development, personalized learning, easy reference, fine motor skill development, and a fun and motivating learning experience for students.

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This Fun activity encourages creativity and fine motor skills as children assemble their own Polar Bear . Perfect for winter-themed lessons, bulletin board displays, or seasonal crafts in preschool and kindergarten classrooms. The set includes both a full-color version and a black-and-white outline version for coloring. Just print, cut, and paste!

What's Included :

• PAGE : 15 PAGES
• FILES : PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 8.5'' x 11''

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Introducing a dynamic blend of creativity and strategy with our Color theory | Elementary art sub plans

Elevate Color Theory:

Step into a world where art meets gaming excitement! Our Colorful Tetris Color theory | Elementary art sub plans is a lifesaver for art teachers facing unexpected absences. With its easy-to-follow NO PREP instructions and minimal materials required, substitute teachers can effortlessly guide students through this engaging activity, ensuring that learning never skips a beat. You will also teach primary and secondary colors, it can also be used to review color theory or to check students' knowledge.

Foster Collaboration and Critical Thinking:

As students collaborate to solve Tetris-inspired challenges, they develop essential teamwork and critical thinking skills. Through lively discussions and creative problem-solving, they learn to communicate effectively and support each other's artistic endeavors.

It is a good art game to use during the first and last week of school as an art sub-plan and an early finisher activity.

There are two ways to play it: cooperatively or competitively. I confess that I prefer cooperatively.

My students were so excited that some did it a few times until they got the gold medal (rulers on how to play are on the teachers' guide)

Teach or review primary and secondary colors with this student-tested game.

This resource includes:

- Teacher’s guide or art sub plans

- PowerPoint presentation

- 2 options on how to play the game

- gold, silver, and bronze medals

- How to play video

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Dive into fine motor skill development with these fun and interactive Ocean Themed Lacing Cards—a hands-on learning activity perfect for preschool and kindergarten!

Contents:
This set includes 15 different ocean-themed lacing cards, each featuring an exciting sea creature or ocean object. The cards are designed with easy-to-see hole punch spots, so teachers can quickly prepare them by punching out the holes. Each card comes in 11x8.5 inches, offering large, sturdy designs perfect for little hands. Teachers can choose to print one or two objects per page, adding flexibility to suit different classroom needs. From dolphins to seashells, these ocean objects will captivate students while building their fine motor skills.

How the Product is Used:
Teachers will print the 11x8.5 inch lacing cards, punch out the holes, and provide students with strings or laces. Students will thread the string through the holes, improving hand-eye coordination and building fine motor skills. The ocean theme adds an engaging element to the activity, keeping students focused as they complete the task.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
Teachers will love how easy it is to prepare these cards and how effective they are in promoting fine motor development. With 15 ocean-themed designs, students will stay engaged as they lace their way through sharks, sea turtles, and starfish. The large size makes the cards perfect for small hands, ensuring that young learners feel successful as they complete the activity. Plus, they are versatile enough for use in centers, sensory play, or as early finisher activities.

Features:

• 15 unique ocean-themed lacing cards, featuring sea animals and objects like dolphins, shells, and jellyfish.
• 11x8.5 inch cards for easy handling by young learners.
• Choose from 1 or 2 objects per page, depending on classroom needs.
• Perfect for strengthening fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Easy to prepare—just print, punch, and provide strings.

How This Product Can Be Used in the Classroom or Other Educational Settings:

1. Fine motor skills practice: Perfect for centers or stations focused on developing hand dexterity and coordination.
2. Ocean-themed unit: Use these lacing cards to complement a lesson on marine life or ocean ecosystems.
3. Sensory or calm-down corners: The repetitive motion of lacing provides a calming activity that helps with focus and motor skills.
4. Early finisher activity: Keep students engaged when they finish other work with this fun, hands-on activity.
5. Special education support: These cards can be used in various learning environments to help develop key motor skills.

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✏️Use as a fun activity in your classroom or send a digital copy home as a Valentine’s Day treat!

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This resource is part Christmas craft, part project & lots of fun for students! Perfect for the time between Thanksgiving & Christmas, this engaging ornament project may be used in the Art of general ed classroom, at home, or as a craft holiday party activity. 

Designed for & used with students in 2nd - 5th grades, it is a highly engaging activity that produces actual ornaments students can take home - even the same day with some projects & variations.  

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 24 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 4 projects
• Project and material variations for each project 
• Full page reference photos
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• National Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades

This time of year students love to create something to take home!  Designed as Christmas ornaments, they can be personalized using other colors & details for students who may not celebrate Christmas. 

These make great ornaments to decorate the hallways or holiday tree at your campus or in your classroom, to send home as parent gifts, as a simple craft for a holiday party, or to do at home with your own children.   

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This Christmas Handprint Craft Bundle offers adorable Christmas themed handprint and footprint crafts, perfect for preschoolers, toddlers, and babies.

Give as a gift or keep as a Christmas memory keepsake.

Handprint crafts are a fun, hands-on way to engage toddlers and preschoolers while building important skills. They help children strengthen fine motor control as they paint, press, and decorate, which supports early writing skills.

These crafts also offer a great sensory experience, letting kids explore textures and colors with their hands. Plus, handprint projects make for memorable keepsakes that capture a moment in time, perfect for sharing with families or displaying in the classroom.

This Christmas Handprint art bundle is a simple but meaningful way to combine creativity with learning!

What's Included:

1 zip file:

1 with 14 pages- portrait orientation- US letter size 8.5 x 11

1 with 8 pages -landscape orientation size 11 x 8.5

each design comes with a blank template and an example design

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1. Download: Once your purchase is confirmed, download the file directly to your computer.
2. Print: Print at home or at a local print shop like Costco, Walgreens, or Staples.
3. Create: Follow the easy instructions included to create your unique handprint art masterpieces.

Paper Recommendation: For best results, use cardstock.

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Teach kids to honor the Godly women in their life with these printable Mother’s Day cards and crafts with Bible verses.

Included are several options to create sweet & meaningful crafts and cards this Mother’s Day.

Each craft has the Bible verse Proverbs 31:30.

As you go through this packet, you will find a cover page for each of the activities. They will have a more detailed description, instructions & helpful visuals!

Save time coming up with something cute and creative for Mother's Day by choosing from these options!

Included

Mother’s Day Flower Coloring Craft: Print one sheet per student, they use crayons/markers to color the flower. This image has “I Love You!” in a heart on the flower, “Happy Mother’s Day” on the top of the pot, and Proverbs 31:30 on the bottom of the pot.

Mother’s Day Flower Dip and Dap Painting Craft: Print one sheet per student, they use a q tip to dip in paint and dab the flower. This image also has “I Love You!” in a heart on the flower, “Happy Mother’s Day” on the top of the pot, and Proverbs 31:30 on the bottom of the pot.

Mother's Day Flower Coloring Craft and Card: Print one sheet front and back per student. This easily folds to make a simple card. Provided in black and white for coloring. The front has a flower with a blank heart, “Happy Mother’s Day” on it and Prov. 31:30. On the inside is a heart that says “I Love You” below

Mother's Day Flower Painting Craft and Card: Print one sheet front and back per student. This easily folds to make a simple card. Provided in black and white for coloring. Provided in color and blank petals for them to dip and dap in paint the flower. The front has a flower with a blank heart, “Happy Mother’s Day” on it and Prov. 31:30. On the inside is a heart that says “I Love You” below

Mother’s Day Interactive Flower Craft Card : This is a unique and interactive card. Print two sheets per student. Does require some cutting, folding and pasting. Print two sheets her student. Students color the flower petals, cut the flower in half and glue unto the provided card template to make it open up into a little card.

Spark Your Imagination in Fairyland!

This enchanting coloring book whisks you away to a magical land filled with 25 delightful fairies and their fantastical world!

• Perfect for Kindergarteners: Large, simple illustrations with thick outlines are ideal for little hands to color.
• Hours of Fun: 25 unique coloring pages provide hours of creative coloring enjoyment.

Let your little artist explore their creativity and bring Fairyland to life, one vibrant color at a time!

Are you looking to have your preschooler learn color matching? This collection of color identification worksheets and sorting games will turn your toddler into a color pro!

Includes:

   ✏ 12 Color flashcards

   ✏ 12 coloring worksheets

   ✏ 12 color-sorting jars with items

   ✏ Game board with dice and game pieces

   ✏ 7 Differentiated color-matching worksheets

These sheets work perfectly to laminate and reuse over and again. Don't waste precious printer ink for printables that can only be used once!

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This is a super fun, elephant toothpaste for kids easy science experiment! It is a great way to talk about liquids, gases, and chemical reactions! I use it when we are learning about states of matter. There are directions for the experiment as well as recording sheets.

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Make Ocean learning fun with these engaging, hands-on Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activities! This packet includes 10 pages of Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activity templates and their perfect for exploring and building creativity. It is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these crown activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in discovering a sea of ocean creatures by coloring in their special sea creature crown. Students will love exploring together by using their critical & problem solving skills through these fun Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown activities, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Have fun!

Here's what you'll get:

• Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Cover
• Whale Crown
• Fish Crown
• Shark Crown
• Blow Fish Crown
• Turtle Crown
• Clown Fish Crown
• Star Fish
• Crab Crown
• Narwhale Crown
• Dolphin Crown

Your students will love doing all of these Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activities with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be concentrating in their seats, engaged, and exploring various Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activities.

These Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes 10 Under the Sea Ocean Animal Crown Activities to complete. It should be printed in black and white. You will need crayons, markers, pencils, scissors, sparkly gems, glitter, tissue paper, stapler and glue. You can use these to do a theater story, while reading an ocean book, dancing to ocean music, finding the beginning sound of each sea creature, practicing writing a sight word sentence using I see or I like the .... Can be used with so many different activities.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Great for prek to 2nd grade or a little older for children with special needs!

Print and use as one time worksheets.

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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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The Easter Bunny Craftivity can be used in many different ways. Students can use the KWL chart with an Easter Read Aloud. Eddy and Ester Bunny can be colored, cut, and constructed to display students' charts or creative writing. Included in this product is: Eddy and Ester Bunny Templates, Easter Lined Writing Paper (Large and Smaller Lines included, and KWL chart. Give students a writing prompt and they can write and display their work on Ester or Eddy Bunny! They will love putting these cute bunnies together! These are great hallway displays!

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Girl and Boy Bunny Template

Decorative Lined Paper-Different sizes

KWL Chart to use with any story.

All printables in black and white. Students will love this activity!

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Elevate your Earth Day celebrations with this set of 15 no-prep art prompts designed specifically for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Graders! Engage learners in creativity and environmental awareness with these thoughtfully crafted prompts.

Each prompt is carefully tailored to Earth Day themes, encouraging students to explore topics like recycling, conservation, nature, and sustainability through art. With no prep needed for teachers, you can seamlessly integrate these prompts into your lesson plans and activities.

These prompts inspire imagination and foster a deeper understanding of our planet's importance. Spark meaningful discussions and showcase students' artistic talents with these art prompts.

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!