The Arts in Middle School

Create bright works of art to hang in the kitchen at home.

Students can recycle their old paintings into beautiful cards to show their appreciation of others at the end of the school year.

Create a whimsical spring collage featuring birds and eggs!

Teach students about the beauty of the Art Nouveau movement by letting them explore their creative side with Valentines.

Teach your students how to harness the power of a simple, limited color palette to enhance a seasonal subject.

Allow students to explore the creativity with a mixed media piece that has the look and feel of a collage print.

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.

Teach students to use naturally complementary colors to create fall paintings.

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.

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.

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 simple tool to identify a composition, students can create their own unique paintings from any view they see outside!

Use cutouts, bright paints, and pastels to put together a seasonably warm piece of art!

Make a creative memory from your class history day with shadow paintings!

Wow! That reference photo has a lot of stuff in it…how do you turn it into a drawing or painting?

Let your students explore the difference between emphasizing color or contrasting lights and darks!

Let your students experiment with the relationship between color and mood by painting to music.

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.

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.

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.