Kindergarten Lessons


Minnesota K-3 Visual Art Standards

  • 1. Identify the elements of visual art including color, line, shape, texture and space.

  • 2. Identify the tools, materials and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics or sculpture.

  • 3. Identify the characteristics of visual artworks from a variety of cultures including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.

  • 4. Create original two- and three- dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences or stories.

  • 5. Share and describe a personal artwork and reflect on a presentation based on the feedback of others.

  • 6. Compare and contrast the characteristics of a variety of works of visual art.

    • *All standards listed above are from the 2012 Minnesota Art Standards document.
  • First Day

  • First Day Baseline Data Lesson

  • Invisible Water Painting

  • Outdoor Drawings

  • Blueberry Morphs

  • Scissors Practice

  • Glue Practice

  • Natural Installation Art

  • Mandala Leaves for the Growth Tree

  • Texture Rubbings

  • Texture Simulation

  • Texture Clay Impressions

  • Wiggly Eye Drawing

  • Line drawing and cutouts

  • Painted Pumpkins with Pastels

  • Fluffy Flowers

  • Waterslide: Art Principle of Repetition

  • Red White And Blue Pennant: Pattern

  • Haunted House Parallax and Perspective

  • Drawing Lesson: Simple bird

  • Tiny Castles

  • Castles Diorama

  • Clay Mini Mice

  • Monster Making with Pieces (multi grade service project)

  • Pixel drawing (grid)

  • Holiday decoration (ornament drawing)

  • Glitter Tree (Christmas)

  • Paper Strip Bird with wiggly eyes

  • Gesture Drawing

  • Santa Face

  • Snow Chains

  • Paint Blot Test

  • "Train--ing" drawing trains

  • Aerial Perspective coloring

  • White Crayon Snowflake Resist

  • Matching Patterned cap and Mittens

  • Modrian

  • Strawberry Fizzy Floats

  • Valentine's Day Flags

  • Valentine's Day Stippled Hearts

  • Drawing Trees with Apples

  • Crayon Color Challenge

  • Invisible Illustration with crayon and marker.

  • Shamrock

  • *Green Crayon Lesson (St. Patrick's day)

  • Kandinski Relief Sculptures

  • Purple Crayon Drawing

  • Seahorses

  • Fairy Tale Illustration

  • Free Painting Exercise

  • Favorite Number/Color Kites

  • Watercolor Flower Composition

  • Color Scavenger Hunt

  • *Skate Park Pass

  • *Overlapping Circles (pattern)

  • Caterpillar variations

  • *Spring Kites

  • Paper Shape Dinosaurs

  • I say... You say...

  • Super Close Monsters

  • Summer Streamers (hats)

  • Ant Houses

  • Little Blue and Little Yellow

  • Paper Swirls/Paper Amusement Park

  • Mini Metal Sculpture

  • Draw Something Contest

  • Chalk Talk --chalk experience

  • Marker Fun

  • Substitute Lessons

    • Universal (k-4) Lessons:

  • Treasure Maps

  • Isometric drawing

  • Bubbles

  • Stained Glass (crayon on oil paper)

  • Radial Symmetry Snowflake (glue glitter)

  • Three-fold Ornament

  • Dark Drawing

  • Winter village

  • Day of the Dead "Dia De Los Muertos"

  • Post-it Note Gallery

  • Ooze

  • Easter Eggs

  • Puff Ball Pets

  • Day of the Dead

  • Mondrian Worksheet

  • Performance Art

  • Turtle

  • Pixel drawing (grid)

  • Throwing

  • Be Words

  • Free Clay Fun

  • Lego Sculptures

  • Lego Sculptures for the Substitute Teacher

  • Heart Smudge (used on long skating days)

  • Starwars Drawing

  • My Monster in a Jar

  • Fish Drawing/Crazy Aquarium

  • Outdoor Drawings

  • Paper Sculpture Creation

  • Skate Park Pass

  • Wall Drawing

  • Spiral Sculpture