Middle School Summer Art Project: Mixed Media Fruit and Vegetable Painting
Create bright works of art to hang in the kitchen at home.
The Arts in Middle School
Connect creative middle school students with the wide world of the arts, including music, painting, drawing, sculpture, dance, drama, theatre and more. You’ll find ideas for both stand-alone arts classroom instruction as well as push-in lessons designed to help the middle school teacher incorporate the arts into a variety of standardized subjects. You will also find some interesting and lively discussion about the continued decline of the arts in some sixth, seventh and eighth grade classrooms due to budgetary restraints and a focus on standardized assessments.
Creating Thank You Cards Using Past Projects: Middle School Art Lesson
Students can recycle their old paintings into beautiful cards to show their appreciation of others at the end of the school year.
Fun February Art Project for Middle School: Create an Art Nouveau Valentine
Teach students about the beauty of the Art Nouveau movement by letting them explore their creative side with Valentines.
Paint a Winter Scene Using a Monochromatic Color Scheme: Fun Middle School Art Lesson!
Teach your students how to harness the power of a simple, limited color palette to enhance a seasonal subject.
Create a Print-Style Mixed Media Painting for the Winter Season: A Middle School Art Lesson
Allow students to explore the creativity with a mixed media piece that has the look and feel of a collage print.
Create a Pumpkin Patch Pastel Painting: Middle School Seasonal Art Lesson
Introduce your students to the beauty of painting with warm lights and cool shadows! This art lesson is appropriate for middle or high school students.
Create a Fall Painting with Complementary Colors
Teach students to use naturally complementary colors to create fall paintings.
Paint with your Senses: Middle School Impressionistic Watercolor Painting
Show your students the joy of using color to paint beyond what they see with their eyes! Students will experiment with watercolor and painting sounds and feelings with color.
Middle School Art Lesson: Still Life Paintings of Your History & Future
Get to know your students through still life painting! In this lesson, students will create a still life painting of objects that represent their past and their future hopes.
Summer Art: Fireworks Display on Black Paper with Pastels
Using just a few simple materials, your students can create an image similar to the beauty of a fireworks display against a night sky!
Using a Viewfinder to Paint Outdoors: Beginner Plein Air Painting Lesson
Using a simple tool to identify a composition, students can create their own unique paintings from any view they see outside!
Created a Mixed Media Collage of a Summer Scene
Use cutouts, bright paints, and pastels to put together a seasonably warm piece of art!
Shadow Paintings Art Lesson for Middle or High School Students
Make a creative memory from your class history day with shadow paintings!
Deciding What to Leave in When Drawing from a Reference Photo: A Quick Draw Art Lesson for Middle or High School
Wow! That reference photo has a lot of stuff in it…how do you turn it into a drawing or painting?
Color vs. Value in Art: Lesson for Middle or High School Students
Let your students explore the difference between emphasizing color or contrasting lights and darks!
Art Lesson on Painting: Exploring Color, Mood & Music
Let your students experiment with the relationship between color and mood by painting to music.
A Light Color Theory Worksheet to Illuminate Your Students’ Painting Smarts
Learn what’s meaningful when studying colors. This light color theory worksheet and quiz on color theory will arm your students with valuable information to make appropriate painting decisions that will lead to better pictures.
How to Make Name Tags – Teacher Creatures
Looking for an engaging design lesson to use in your science, social, math, or art lesson? This creature creation will allow students to design a creature name tag from words they will be exposed to throughout your lesson or your classroom while learning to be creative, have fun and produce art.
Art Lesson on Harmony and Perception Using a Color Wheel
Learn how to get your students to think differently about painting. These color theory lessons will enable your students to process how harmony is achieved with color, solve color harmony problems, and feel comfortable about their ability to paint a piece they can be proud of.
