Arts & Crafts

Kids love arts and crafts! The art lessons and activities you will find here are fun, engaging and highly integrated with the first grade literacy and writing curriculum. Explore famous artists, art from different cultures, or simple seasonal crafts for the whole school year. Everything is done for you, with step-by-step directions and read-aloud scripts for teachers so you can start right away!

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Art History For Elementary

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Art History for Elementary 1

Your elementary students are going to be so excited to study history, culture, geography and literacy when they have the opportunity to view it through the lens of Art and Art History. These amazing Art History lessons provide a unique and interesting way to engage learners and integrate learning on multiple levels. Each Art History unit includes a student-friendly teacher script to read aloud to students. Questions are also included to support you in helping students to engage in discussions. These Art History lessons integrate literacy activities, allowing students the opportunity to share, compare, discuss and write about their learning.

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Art History for Elementary 2

Looking for easy arts & crafts activities for elementary kids that focus on art history and famous artists? This is Set 2 of Art History for Elementary Students! There are art projects, activities and lessons focusing on 30 different artists that use a variety of easy-to-find materials. Each artist pack features a read-aloud script for the teacher to help introduce the artist and corresponding art project. This means you will not need a lot of background knowledge of the artist or art curriculum to teach these lessons. Just turn to page 1 and begin!

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Art Around The World

Are you looking for easy arts & crafts activities for kids that focus on different countries and cultures? Art Around the WORLD is a collection of 18 art lessons focusing on 6 countries/continents specifically designed for elementary students from first grade and up. Explore the world of art with over 160 pages of step-by-step photo instructions to guide each art project.

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70 Seasonal Arts & Craft Activities Megabundle

Are you in need of easy seasonal arts & crafts ideas for your primary classroom? This huge collection features 70+ simple craft projects (8 seasonal art activities for each month), including Spring and Earth Day, as well as printable worksheets!

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Directed Drawing Full Year Bundle

This bundle of 60+ Directed Drawing and Writing worksheet activities for kindergarten and 1st grade will fill your writing centers all year! Students independently practice directed drawing and supported writing about Easter, Spring, March, Fall, Winter holidays, Earth Day and more! The differentiated writing activities support all of your students because they allow ALL students to work on the same drawing lesson at many different writing levels. Directed drawing is fun, easy, and no prep for your weekly art project, early finishers, or a fun writing center!

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