Kindergarten Visual Arts Activities

No prep! This directed drawing pack guides students through an easy six-step process of creating ten summer items, and even a "create your own" page for students to design their own directed drawing activity to share with a friend or partner.

Directed drawing activities feature simple shapes and lines, and include clear, step-by-step numerical instructions for students to follow. You can also encourage students to add their own creative touches!

Directed Drawing Activities:

1. Beach balls
2. Beach buckets
3. Fish
4. Flip flops
5. Ice cream
6. Palm Trees
7. Sandcastles
8. Shells
9. Sunglasses
10. Sun
11. Create your own

Benefits of Directed Drawing

Fine Motor Skills: Directed drawing nurtures fine motor skills, essential for writing and other dexterous tasks. As students grasp and manipulate drawing tools, their hand-eye coordination and muscle control refine.
Creativity: Directed drawing sparks imagination and creativity. Students are encouraged to explore colors, shapes, and patterns - and to add their own unique touches to each creation!

Writing Foundations: Directed drawing lays the groundwork for writing and also improves handwriting skills. Students learn to follow visual instructions, recognize and manipulate shapes, and maintain consistent pencil strokes – all essential elements of handwriting!

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!

Boost creativity and literacy with our engaging lesson featuring Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes craft. Pete the Cat is not just any cat; he's the coolest cat around. Students will dive into the fun, rhythmic story while exploring themes of confidence and self-expression. They'll then unleash their artistic side by designing their own version of Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes, making this lesson both educational and memorable!

Engage students with color vocabulary through this enjoyable Pete the Cat shoes craft! This resource is perfect for whole-group instruction, small-group work, or literacy centers suitable for Pre-K through early elementary students. It complements the story "Pete the Cat: Rocking in my school shoes" wonderfully. After reading the story, have the children color, sew, or make a collage of the shoe in their favorite colors.

Getting ready for the new school year has never been more fun! Here's what our Pete the Cat Rocking in my school shoes set offers:

This resource includes:

• 16 scripted slideshow - 1 editable template
• PDF file and 3 printables
• 1 Pete the Cat poster
• 10 colorful shoes flashcards
• Teacher's guide and lesson overview

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Engage your students’ creativity with this ultimate artist bundle of 22 resources inspired by various artists. With over 85 projects included, this bundle introduces your students to a diverse group of artists while building skills and exploring materials with these highly engaging projects. 

This artists project bundle contains 22 lessons (+ 1 future bonus lesson) designed for elementary students and includes TONS of extras - everything from National Arts Standards & TEKS (Texas), project & material variations, cross-curricular & literacy connections, and more! 

This artist projects bundle includes a PDF file for each of the 24 resources.  

It includes: 

• Step-by-step detailed instructions with photos for projects

• Project and material variations

• Cross-curricular and literacy connections

• Over 500 pages of materials

The bonus project - art projects inspired by Matisse for K-5th grade - will be available by October 15.

Artists included in this bundle are Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lois Mailou Jones, John Nieto,  Alma Thomas, Vincent van Gogh, Ted Harrison, Sandra Silberzweig, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Jim Dine, Sonia Delaunay, Romero Britto, Mary Blair, Mateo Romaro, Judith Scott, and Howardena Pindell. 

Lessons include National Arts Standards & TEKS (Texas) while some projects include ideas for assessment, social and emotional learning (SEL), drawing guides, tips for project success, & templates.  These projects are structured so all your students will be successful! Be prepared for the school year with plenty of projects for artist studies and project variations too.

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Saddle up for a Valentine's Day celebration with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack! This delightful pack features 8 pages of charming designs centered around classic cowboy elements such as boots, hats, and hearts, perfect for spreading love and cheer in the Wild West style.

Inside, you'll find intricately detailed illustrations of cowboy boots adorned with hearts, hats with romantic embellishments, and heart-shaped lassos to capture your creativity. Each page is designed with care to provide hours of relaxing and enjoyable coloring experience for both kids and adults alike.

Whether you're a seasoned cowpoke or a greenhorn in the coloring world, our

Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack offers something for everyone. Let your imagination roam free as you bring these Western-themed designs to life with your favorite colors and shades.

So round up your crayons, grab your spurs, and get ready to create some heartwarming masterpieces with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack. It's sure to be a rootin' tootin' good time for all!

Includes a PDF pack of 8 pages. Some include sayings such as Happy Valentine's Day and Howdy Valentine. There are also options without words.

Unleash Kid's Inner Artist: Draw 15 Amazing Animals!

Join us on a fun adventure to create 15 incredible animals! This easy-to-follow guide uses simple shapes to break down each drawing into 7 manageable steps.

Here's what you'll get:

• Step-by-step instructions: We'll start with basic shapes and gradually add details, making drawing fun and achievable.
• 15 unique animals: Unleash kid's creativity with a variety of creatures, from cuddly cats to funny a happy rooster.
• Confidence boost: By the final step, kid'll be drawing and coloring the favorite animals independently, feeling proud of themself artistic skills!

Get ready to be surprised by what they can create!

This fabulous and engaging K-2 activity will gradually allow young learners to enjoy drawing and creating fantastic art pieces. Step-by-step instructions allow each student to create classroom materials drawings during whole group instruction or independent learning time. Students can then add vocabulary, sentences, or a short idea to describe their object. This fun and exciting activity grows as students grow throughout the year.

I create a practice art notebook for students where each piece gets glued into their book as they develop mastery. The added creative writing element means they learn to talk about art in a French too!

How to prepare this resource:

Make a copy of each page and distribute to students. You can arrange to have them all done in a booklet form or, as I do, I make copies at the beginning of the year and add pages to a ‘cahier d’art’ for students to work on at their own pace once we have done a few as a group.

Students love the independence of working on the art piece on their own and as language production develops, they even go back to their first drawings to add details and sentences to describe their work!

When to use this resource in the classroom:

These activities can be used from the first week of school. Following instructions, mastering step-by-step directions can start at any time during the school year. Students will love using these pages as their confidence grows as each step shows dotted line additions that add a version of what each step looks like.

As language develops during the year, students can add details, descriptions, or story starters to prompt creative writing.

I hope your students enjoy learning to draw these classroom materials!

Appropriate audience:

I use these posters in my French Immersion classroom with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. I feel confident that they could be used for any grade from K-6

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I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from Kindergarten to Grade Three will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Celebrate fall and have fun creating too! This resource will give your learner the chance to paint with their fingers, using their fine motor skills and create a beautiful piece of fall art.

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Pumpkin Craft Activity SET of three, for Fall / Autumn / Halloween Bulletin Board or Hallway Art.
Color & draw, cut, and paste! Great NO PREP substitute plans, etc.

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Unlock the rich history and vibrant culture of Hispanic heritage with our Spanish Heritage Month Bundle. This all-inclusive Hispanic Culture Educational Bundle is designed to engage students with a variety of Hispanic Heritage Month Activities and Latino Culture Classroom Resources. Perfect for educators looking to enrich their curriculum with Hispanic Heritage Lesson Plans and Bilingual Education Materials.

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Encourage creativity and fine motor skills with this Lucky Shamrock Craft! This printable activity is perfect for young learners to practice cutting, gluing, and expressing gratitude.

How It Works:

Kids cut and paste small pieces of green and gold paper onto the shamrock template.

They complete the sentence: "I'm Lucky Because I Have..." to reflect on what makes them feel fortunate.

A great hands-on craft for St. Patrick’s Day, gratitude lessons, or a fun classroom display!

What’s Included:

✔ Printable shamrock template (black & white for easy printing)

✔ "I'm Lucky Because..." writing prompt

✔ Suitable for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade

Perfect for:

✔ Fine motor skill development

✔ St. Patrick’s Day classroom activities

✔ Social-emotional learning & gratitude discussions

✔ Hands-on art and writing integration

Print, cut, and create a colorful shamrock masterpiece today!

Free Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Activity – Hand-Drawn and Engaging for Students!

Celebrate Thanksgiving with this fun and free turkey coloring activity! Perfect for classrooms or home use, this hand-drawn turkey artwork allows students to express their creativity while learning about the Thanksgiving holiday. Designed to captivate and entertain, this activity is ideal for developing fine motor skills, fostering creativity, and encouraging artistic expression. Whether as part of a holiday lesson or a standalone craft, this free Thanksgiving coloring activity will keep students excited and involved.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with fun and festive coloring pages! From leprechauns to shamrocks, these free printable coloring pages are a great way to keep kids entertained and get into the holiday spirit. Perfect for classrooms, parties, or just a relaxing afternoon at home, these St. Patrick's Day coloring pages are sure to bring a little luck o' the Irish to your day. Get creative and add some green to your world with these charming designs. Download and print today!

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Fun DOT DAY ANIMALS 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!

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This is an activity to go with the Disney movie Bolt. This activity focuses on the characters in the movie, how the main character Bolt changes from the beginning of the story to the end, and how Mittens impacts the story.

These plant themed addition agamograph craft is a fun, unique craft for students to create and practice their addition facts at the same time! This single craft page produces an image that changes as it is looked at from different angles.

What is Included:

• one craft page for addition facts within 10
• one craft page for addition facts within 20

By having two different addition fact craft worksheets, teachers can easily differentiate this craft for students on different levels of addition fact fluency.

How to Use:

Answer the addition problems in the answer key then color each section according to the sum of each addition problem. Students will then cut out the large rectangle and fan fold the picture using the dividing lines in the middle as a guide.

When to Use:

• Independent math craft
• Math or Art Center
• Homework
• Emergency Sub Plans
• Small Group Activity

Skills Used and Assessed:

• Addition Facts up to 10 or 20
• Fine Motor Skills with folding

More Addition Crafts and Fine Motor Activities:

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Introducing the May Day Spring Basket Craft and Floral Crown Crafts!

This exciting, fun and interactive product includes step-by-step instructions and templates for creating beautiful May Day baskets and floral crowns that your younger students will love. The templates are designed with graphics, perfect for getting children excited about the arrival of spring.

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Need an awesome Art Unit? I have just the thing for you! This creative Observational Pumpkin Drawing was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I placed several plastic pumpkins and gourds at each set of tables for students to look at and draw. Students practiced drawing/coloring pumpkins and gourds in their sketchbooks or on small paper first. Next, students started a Final Copy drawing of one observational pumpkin and one gourd on 11 x 17-inch paper (horizontal). Students used oil pastels and watercolor paint. Plan to do this unit during the fall, between Halloween and Thanksgiving. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Need some fun activities for your library or classroom? Try these! Based on Leo Timmer's adorable new picture book "Bear's Lost Glasses" it includes activities and printables for story retelling, compare and contrast, fiction vs. nonfiction, and STEAM projects. This title is part of the Texas 2x2 list for 2025-2026.

Do your kids love the idea of running their own farm and caring for animals? Our Build a Farm - Printable Farm Activity lets them do just that! This interactive activity pack allows children to design and build their very own farm, complete with a barn, farm animals, a windmill, fences, and trees. It's a fantastic way to combine creativity and learning, as kids can engage in imaginative play while understanding the elements that make up a farm.

Perfect for classroom settings, homeschool projects, or fun at-home activities, this printable pack offers endless possibilities for play and learning. Children can cut, color, and assemble each piece to create a vibrant farm scene, fostering fine motor skills and spatial awareness.

What’s Included in the Build a Farm Printable Activity Pack:

• Barn: Create a classic red barn, the heart of every farm.
• Farm Animals: Craft a variety of animals including cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep to populate your farm.
• Windmill: Add a touch of realism with a spinning windmill.
• Fences: Build fences to organize and contain your animals.
• Trees: Enhance your farm's landscape with printable trees.
• Instructions & Tips: Easy-to-follow instructions for cutting and assembling each component.

Features:

• Printable Templates: Ready-to-use designs for a complete farm setup.
• Full-Color & Black-and-White Options: Choose from pre-colored designs or color-your-own templates for personalized creativity.
• Educational & Fun: Encourages imaginative play and teaches about farm life and animal care.
• Hands-On Learning: Develops fine motor skills through cutting and assembly activities.

et your kids embark on a farming adventure with our Build a Farm - Printable Farm Activity, and watch them bring their own farm to life through engaging and creative play!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

Looking for a fun Father's Day Gifts, activities, Crafts or Decorations? This set has everything you need, It will keep your students engaged and learning with this Fathers Day Mega Bundle

Activities included in this printable Bundle:

- All About My Dad

- Father’s Day Banners

- Father's Day Coloring Cards

- Father's Day Coupons

- Father's Day Gift Card Holder

- Father's Day Gift Tags

- Father's Day Handprint Craft

- Fathers Day Paper Crowns

- Father's Day Portrait

- Father's Day Spinner Wheel

- Fathers day Tie

- Father's Day Tie Cards

- Super Dad Craft

- World's Best Dad Award

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