5th grade winter art projects

Learn how to create this Winter Art Project in your classroom for FREE with the FREE Downloadable PDF that includes all the tools and steps that you need to not only teach the lesson, but display it too. Students will use paint, paper, and pastel to create this FREE Winter Evergreen Art Project.

Transport your art students to a winter wonderland memory with this how to drawing tutorial for a snowy winter burrow full of lively woodland creatures!

We're almost there folks! Just 1.5 days left until Christmas break!! The kids have actually been great, thanks to fun new projects like this one! I was scrolling through Instagram, Ahem... (I mean Collaborating with my fellow Ahht teachers) when I came across an awesome looking lesson inspired by the one and only, Cassie Stephens, and the ever so talented Art Room Britt. They had been doing the fabulous looking Jen Aranyi inspired landscapes with their classes, so naturally I had to try it…

Because they're so downright messy, I don't have students use soft pastels for very many lessons. However, there's no denying how right they are for certain subjects. Case in point: the Northern Lights. I've seen several examples of lessons like this on Pinterest and finally decided to let my 5th graders give one a go. As usual, they didn't disappoint! We started by drawing simple overlapping hills along the bottom of our black 12x18 construction paper, leaving thick lines between the…

Unique as a radial snowflake, these beautiful designs connect math and art in a cool way. Great for middle grade students.

After studying Indian Mandalas (for some classes, I introduced the art; for others, it was a follow-up on a sub lesson), my 4th grade students watched the YouTube movie Flowers are Fun, which shows a person drawing a Mandala design. We talked about radial symmetry, and how a design can look really complicated if you repeat simple swirls, lines, and shapes around a circle design. Next, the students brainstormed things you can find in nature that have radial symmetry. I let the students keep…

Learn about layering and blending pastels with this gorgeous northern lights chalk pastel art project! A beautiful winter art project kids will love creating.

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After many watercolor projects behind us, I was looking for a quick project to do with my kids in a dry technique that would give reliable and bold results. We had not done any oil pastel projects in ages, so I though I'd start there. I discovered this amazing artist on youtube: Art Arena. He creates stunning, bright oil pastel landscapes using a blending technique, and incorporates silhouetted images with soft graphite for a powerful effect. This project is directly inspired by his 'Aurora…

Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a monochromatic winter landscape painting. This activity helps artists to build skills using the elements of art: COLOR, SPACE & VALUE. A monochromatic color scheme shows variations of tints, tones and shades of one color. This composition can be done with a range of