Lesson Plans

Relax reluctant artists who feel drawings must look like photographs with this exercise in blind line drawing.

Investigate the impact of oil spills and efforts made to prevent and clean up such environmental accidents.

Imagine a Dancing Marionette made with brightly designed paper! This unique paper curls, twirls, and swirls!

Calacas are fun, vibrant skeleton sculptures used to represent passed love ones for Dia de los Muertos. In this lesson,

Like to doodle and improvise? Explore color field painting in the style of African American artist Sam Gilliam.

Make your focal point sing with lively colors by framing your favorite portion of this wiggly line painting.

Students create graphic artwork like FAPE artist, Roy Lichtenstein, using math and visual arts skills.

Play a cool double dare game! Students figure out addition doubles on dry-erase boards.

Find all of the different shapes that can be made by arranging Crayola Dry-Erase Crayons end to end on an individual dry

Join in the festivities of Mexico’s most famous holiday El dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead). Enjoy the surprise

Directional words assist students in learning concepts such as opposites. Using terms like up, down, left, and right hel

Life-size chalk drawings of body systems decorate playgrounds and sidewalks while demonstrating new learning.

Let student creativity soar as they imagine and create crazy contraptions. Working collaboratively students will create

History and culture head for the fashion runway as students study fabric and clothing from other times and places.

Students learn the value of little details of a story as they critically decide what is most important to visually expre

"How to Draw a Dragon" by Douglas Florian has all the information anyone would need to inspire the creation of a ferocio

What letters do children know?

Discover how light changes from morning until night, when bedtime routines, complete with speech bubbles, begin. Why not

Learn about the life of artist Henri Matisse and create artwork with a technique he called “Drawing with Scissors”.

Do you love when warm spring winds start to blow? Design a decorative kite using no-mess Color Wonder™ Soft Sticks™.

Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? And how did they get those stripes, anyway? Do some re

Dream of the future and reach high for your goals! Create dream clouds that are a great way for groups to get to know ea

Show the "big idea" or "theme" in a variety of drawings to build artistic fluency and flexibility.

How do stalactites and stalagmites grow hundreds of feet inside the Earth? Explore an original cave, constructed inside

What are your goals? Students design their dreams on a T-shirt!

Every habitat has it's up and down sides as far as human habitation is concerned. Students create their ideal mash-up en

Looking for an eye-catching place to organize Chanukah cards? Craft a beautiful container that families will cherish for

Discover the wonders that lie under the sea! Go on a research expedition to find out more about the underwater world.

Discover ancient Chanukah traditions and symbols. Use them to create a beautiful decoration for a holiday that's celebra

Create an original creature! Students will research the physical features of their two favorite animals and create a com

Students design their own book! Combine Crayola Texture It! Tempera Mixing Medium and Crayola Twistables® to make memora

Can more than 281 million visitors be wrong? Is the United States National Park Service “America’s best idea” as one per

Research earthquakes and how they are detected and measured then make a simulated seismograph.

Porcelain clay has been used to create delicate, beautiful works of art for centuries. Create miniature gift sculptures

Celebrate Semana Santa the week before Easter! Recreate glorious Guatemalan street carpets—alfombras—with an explosion o

Explore Victorian crazy quilting fad of the late 1800’s. This crayon sampler incorporates a variety of crayon techniques

Designing frames is a fun way to explore geometric features.

Make a simple moveable painting in watercolors and markers to illustrate how tides affect the life and landscape along t

Delight Dad with the perfect gift. This door hanger will guarantee him extra naptime, uninterrupted hours in the worksho

Who’s reading what? Be a book worm and find out. Creep your way into fascinating fiction (or nonfiction) with this giant

Students investigate career choices and create an action figure career card to represent their personal choices.

Create advertising for Earth Day! Use Crayola® Dry-Erase crayons to encourage earth-friendly behaviors.

Help children build their self-confidence as they create self-portraits emphasizing that they are INDIVIDUALS and an imp

Entice students to learn about a state’s economy through the engineering of an engaging game board that integrates color

Use Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech to inspire students to illustrate a dream that will touch hearts, minds

Protection of the world’s tropical rainforests is a key environmental strategy for keeping the Earth healthy. Demonstrat

The continuing destruction of the world’s rainforests has enormous effects on life. What can be done to help stop the de