Additional Resources
For additional resources, online art events, or alternatives to the art assignments listed on the grade specific pages, check out the following links!
Daily Art Drawing Prompt
Click on the PDF icon to the left if you would like to access a calendar with a daily drawing prompt.
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems!
Mo Willems, author and illustrator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, will be hosting a live lunch doodle session in which children are invited to draw along with him! Videos will begin every week day at 1:00PM. Click the link below to access this site.
Art for Kids Hub
Draw along to just about anything with Rob and his family on their YouTube channel Art for Kids Hub! They upload new videos every day M-F and already have thousands of options to choose from each week. Just remember, the most important thing is to have fun and pause the video if it's moving too fast. Draw with any writing/drawing material you have available at home!
"What Is It?" Drawing Sheets
If you have access to a printer, consider printing these "What is it?" drawing sheets. Simply finish the drawing that has already been started! There is no right or wrong answer. Click the PDF icon to access.
Oliver Jeffers' World
Author of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home, Oliver Jeffers, has a website where project ideas, puzzles, and coloring pages of his illustrations are available for free. These activities are under the "Do Stuff" tab on his website.
Emily Arrow
Hello, hello! Emily Arrow is a music educator that loves to sing about books and art! She has a YouTube channel and albums with music specifically for elementary-aged students. Ms. Tompkins' personal favorites are "The Dot Song," "Ish Song," and "Studio Song." We listen to these frequently in K-2 art classes while creating.
Bonus: Emily Arrow will host new "At home with Emily Arrow" sing a long lessons on this channel daily M-F!
Scratch Garden Art Songs
Scratch Garden is a channel on YouTube that creates catchy songs about art and other subjects with animations to go along with it! We have listened to may of these songs in our art class this year. If you click the picture to the right, you will find a compilation of all of the art songs they have available in one video. Which of these songs do you recognize?
Tate Paint
Make your own creations digitally by using this website! Choose to save your creations or submit them to be featured on the Tate Kids website!
An at-home process based maker space guide for elementary-aged children by the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, PA. Click the logo for the website!
Museum at Home
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Children's Museum of NH Blog
The Children's Museum of NH (located in Dover, NH) offers STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) lessons and activities for children to do at home during this time. Check out their great how-to videos by clicking the Children's Museum Logo!