This resource contains 3 cross-curricular art lessons + 1 collaborative project to learn about the artwork of Disney artist Mary Blair.  Ideal for back to school, this elementary project provides a collaborative project to build community in your classroom & create a collaborative piece of art to display in the first weeks of school!  Perfect for Women’s History Month, an artist study, or any time of year, this highly engaging project can be used with Kindergarten through 5th grade students.

The individual projects can be used with or without the collaborative project.  So many extras are included with this lesson. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 19 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 3 individual projects
• Suggestions for project and material variations 
• Detailed instructions & photos for collaborative art project including tips for incorporating social-emotional learning, assessment, & early finisher activities 
• Differentiation tips
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Information about artist Mary Blair
• Women’s History Month facts
• Tips for project success
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for Kindergarten-5th grades

Get your year off to a fantastic start with a great collaborative project & artwork display! 

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This resource contains 11 different Native American Feather art projects that let students explore a variety of media while learning about Native American culture.  Perfect for Native American Heritage Month (November), this resource is designed for 2nd-5th grades but may be adapted for middle school or even younger students. 

Looking to engage your students? This resource is highly engaging and cross-curricular.   With 11 feather projects, there is something for every student. Facts about feathers and their significance in Native American culture are included.  

Need to assess student knowledge or skills? Many of the projects are short, one-day projects ideal for experimenting with new media or assessing skills.  Ideas for assessment are included. 

What about differentiating for my students?  With a variety of projects using many different media, you have many project choices to allow you to differentiate the project and/or the process of creating the project.  

Can I use it with centers? This resource may be used with or without centers. Using centers allows students to work at different rates while all students are still working and creating but projects may easily be done without centers.   

What about art content? National Arts Standards and TEKS (standards for Texas) are included for 2nd - 5th grades. Each project also includes relevant art vocabulary to use with the lesson. 

WHAT OTHER TEACHERS SAID

 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “We did some of these projects during Native American Heritage Month. Students loved creating different feathers with different art materials. They turned out beautifully!”

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

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 11 projects - 10 feather art projects & 1 student-created feather stencil
• Suggestions for project variations
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Ideas for assessment
• Feather facts and the information on the importance of feathers in Native American culture
• 2 coloring pages with 2 feathers each (total of 4 feathers)
• Student practice sheet with rachis already drawn
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades
• Group project ideas

Get yours to create an amazing display for Native American Heritage Month. This resource is also part of 2 Native American Art Project bundles listed here and here.

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These mixed media Amate Bark paintings will inspire your students while teaching them about the traditions of Mexican bark painting. They are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month or any time of year. These projects are designed for elementary students (Kindergarten - 5th grade). 

This lesson is highly engaging, cross-curricular & contains 4 different projects plus 4 different methods to create amate to use for the projects.

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

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 4 amate projects
• Instructions & photos for creating 4 different amate project backgrounds that can be mixed & matched with all 4 projects
• Suggestions for project and material variations 
• Templates (reproducible) of 4 project designs
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Information on amate artists
• Amate facts
• Tips for project success
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for Kindergarten-5th grades

Set up stations and let students choose a project or rotate through and complete several while learning about traditional amate. 

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Students love Day of the Dead. This resource lets students practice their artmaking skills while playing a Roll the Dice game to create a calavera. Simple instructions and game board are included along with multiple choices of blank calaveras for students to create their own unique sugar skull. With high student engagement, this multicultural resource is a great way to bring Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) into your classroom.

This resource includes a game board and instructions plus 2 blank game boards (dice numbers and all categories are included on 1, dice numbers and 2 categories with the rest of the categories blank on the other), multiple blank calaveras for students to use to create their calavera in the game plus so much more!

2 assessments - 1 for elements of art and 1 for principles of design are also included with a calavera so students can create a calavera using the elements or principles then describe their work for your assessment.

The game is perfect to leave as a sub lesson for grades 2-5 (or middle school). Laminate blank game boards and calaveras and let students design their own game using dry erase markers, then play the game they created, or simply print out paper copies. It can be used as an activity for students who finish another project early since it is self-directed and can be played by 1 or multiple students.

Multiple variations and suggestions are included. National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (for those teachers in Texas) are included for grades 2-5.

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This fun pumpkin art lesson is perfect for fall with 5 pumpkin projects for your students to create.  This cross-curricular lesson includes 4 projects for 2nd-5th grade & 1 project specifically designed for younger students.  

This highly engaging lesson includes many bonuses not found in other lessons and can be used for autumn or fall, back to school, with a themed unit, or any time of year. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 27 pages.  It includes:  

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions & photos for 5 projects
• Suggestions for project & material variations
• Pumpkin drawing guide
• Pumpkin templates (reproducible) 
• Pumpkin facts & photos
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for K-5th grade

These projects produce an array of seasonal artwork for fall.  Instructions are included for a large collaborative project too. 

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Take your Art room to the next level with this cross-curricular collage project for upper elementary students. Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month, Day of the Dead, or anytime, this project has it all - high student engagement, multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular, differentiation strategies for reaching all learners, project examples, ideas to incorporate this lesson into centers, and much, much more!

I love doing this project in October leading up to Halloween because this artwork produces a great seasonal multicultural display that is tied to Día de los Muertos (and not Halloween). Hispanic Heritage Month ends a few weeks before Day of the Dead and this project integrates them perfectly!

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 20 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos
• Lesson variations with instructions and photos
• Calavera drawing guide with differentiation ideas for students
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts and resources
• Day of the Dead facts and resources
• Center suggestions for calavera drawing
• Center suggestions for use with collage project
• Ideas for assessments to use with centers for collage project

Using this lesson is also a great way to assess your students' fine motor skills, creativity, use of materials, and so much more. It is designed and has been used with 3-5th grades but is adaptable for middle school. This lesson includes TEKS (if you are in Texas) and National Core Arts Standards for 3rd-5th grades.

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Kirigami is a highly engaging, hands-on Day of the Dead project for upper elementary students and is perfect for dual language classes. This cross-curricular project can be used for Hispanic Heritage Month, Day of the Dead, or anytime and works well for Art on a cart. It includes tips for all learners to be successful and includes a 1 page student instruction sheet in English and Spanish to help your dual language students stay on track.

This is a project I do in October leading up to Halloween and Day of the Dead because this artwork produces a fantastic seasonal multicultural display that is tied to Día de los Muertos. This project is a great way to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month and Day of the Dead!

This resource is in a PDF file that is 17 pages. It includes

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos
• Calavera drawing guide
• Student instruction sheet in English & Spanish
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Hispanic Heritage month facts and resources
• Day of the Dead facts and resources
• Early finisher activities
• 3 black and white full-page calaveras to use as examples for students and with early finisher activities
• Ideas for assessments to use with centers for collage project
• Instructions for use on Art on a cart
• Suggestions for setting up project using stations
• Suggestions for project variations
• TEKS and National Core Arts Standards for 3rd-5th grades

This lesson was designed and has been used with 3-5th grades but is adaptable for middle school.

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These holiday projects featuring poinsettias are ideal for the holiday season but can be used any time of the year while studying indigenous plants, Mexico, or traditions. Use these mixed media projects to create a fantastic holiday display without doing a Christmas project.

These hands-on, cross-curricular projects are perfect for this time of year when students are excited and sometimes difficult to manage in the classroom. The projects are highly engaging and develop students' fine motor skills - both things that cut down on unwanted behaviors.

Four different projects for grades 2-5 are included. Set up stations and let your students choose a project or rotate through and complete them all.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 18 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 4 projects
• Suggestions for project variations including a collaborative project
• Poinsettia drawing guide
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections for use with all projects
• Hand-drawn original poinsettia template
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades
• Instructions for an easy way to create painted paper (with little to no clean up)
• Poinsettia fact sheet with real photos

These projects are mixed media and use different materials and techniques to create artwork. These types of projects help develop your students' fine motor skills, sequencing, and eye-hand coordination.

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Rake in the compliments when you display this autumn pumpkin artwork by your students created with this lesson which contains 5 pumpkin projects to inspire your students. This cross-curricular lesson has 4 projects designed for upper elementary (3rd-5th grade & up) & 1 project for lower elementary (K-2nd grade). 

This lesson is highly engaging & multi-disciplinary.  The lower elementary project includes suggested centers for the project.  Perfect for back to school or autumn, these projects can be used any time of the year.  

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 32 pages.  It includes:  

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions & photos for 5 projects
• Suggestions for project & material variations
• Pumpkin drawing guide
• Pumpkin templates (reproducible) 
• Pumpkin facts & photos
• Autumn facts & photos
• Cross-curricular & literacy connections
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 3rd-5th grade (4 projects) & K-2nd grade (1 project)

These projects produce stunning artwork to display at the beginning of the year or during autumn/fall. 

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Need more Native American projects? These mixed media Native American Bear projects provide your students with the opportunity to explore materials and create magnificent artwork for display. This cross-curricular lesson is perfect for Native American Heritage Month (November) and includes connections to math, science, social studies, and literacy.

These projects are inspired by the artwork of artist John Nieto and are highly engaging, multi-disciplinary, and include all the instructions needed to make your lesson successful. The project is for 2nd-5th grade students and includes National Core Arts Standards and TEKS for these grades. It can be used with Native American Heritage Month, with a unit on animals, artists, or anytime of the year.

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 14 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 3 projects
• 2 bear drawing guides with photos
• Suggestions for project variations
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Native American and Hispanic Artist John Nieto facts & quotes
• 2 original bear drawings
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades

Each project includes a list of materials and step-by-step instructions.

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Hispanic Heritage Month is coming! This highly engaging, cross-curricular project is adaptable for all elementary grades kindergarten through 5th grade. Students love printmaking and this resource includes 3 different printmaking choices and multiple variations to complete the project designed so you can mix and match to create a customized project to work with your students. This lesson is multicultural, cross-curricular, and produces fantastic student artwork for display.

This resource is in a PDF file and includes:

• 3 printmaking projects with step-by-step instructions with photos
• Multiple ways to finish the projects
• Multiple project variations with photos
• Hispanic Heritage fact sheet
• Maracas fact sheet
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections

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