PREK-ELEMENTARY
Activity Kits, Coloring Sheets, and Teacher’s Guides
Ages: 2-10
Laura Gehl’s website includes printable activity kits, printable coloring sheets, and teacher’s guides with writing prompts and activities.
Ages: 4-10+
ALOHA FRIDAY ART is a “mixed plate” of DIY STEAMed art, stories from around the world, tasty kid lit, a side of hula & plenty aloha. Check it out on Friday, March 27 at AlohaFridayArt.com. It will publish on Fridays twice a month. More info on the site soon.
Art Blast! Fun Lessons for Kids and Aliens
Ages: 6-11
Fun, self-paced art lessons for kids, taken from successful classroom projects Jonathan Roth has done as an elementary art teacher.
Ages: 5-10
A website for children to learn and make art.
Art Lessons & Educational Resources
Ages: 6+
Art Lessons for all ages! Fun drawing and collaging for the whole family. Check back for new content.
Art School with Kate and Loretta
Ages: 4+
Join author/illustrator Kate Fischer and her 4-year-old daughter, Loretta for simple art lessons via Facebook Live! Lots of giggles and giveaways!
Ages: 2-10
YouTube channel featuring child-friendly drawing tutorials, process videos and more! Free coloring sheets, games and yoga activities on Susi’s website.
CHALK YOUR WALK: A Drawing Video with Bill Thomson
Ages: 4-8
A video of the author of the wordless book, CHALK, creating a sidewalk drawing with chalk.
CLYDE THE HIPPO Drawing Lesson
Ages: 4-10
A quick lesson on how to draw Clyde the Hippo. Kids who share their drawings will have their artwork posted on the website gallery and will receive a sticker, bookmark, and signed bookplate.
COLOR CUT CREATE! Activity Packet
Ages: 6-12
Color • Cut • Create! activity packet is a free download featuring paper toy activities found only in the Color-Cut-Create! Superhero activity book. This activity packet is great for STEM-based education.
Coloring Pages Featuring Plants and Animals of the Sonoran Desert and Colorado Plateau
Ages: 3-9
Coloring pages about plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert/Colorado Plateau. A new page will be added every Wednesday.
Grades: K-5
Starting Monday, 3/23, kids can download a CREATE A CHARACTER activity sheet. Four BLOBS (inspired by real objects) are on each sheet. Kids can turn the BLOBS into any character they like using a medium of their choice. CHARACTER CARDS are available for kids to continue building onto their character with character traits. This activity encourages creativity, imagination, and problem-solving skills. Amy will share her character designs on Friday. Families can check the Blog Archive to see previous designs and Guest Artist’s artwork.
DIFFERENT JUST LIKE ME Coloring Pages
Grades: K-4
Coloring book pages from Lori Mitchell’s illustrated books and prompts to encourage children to create their own art.
Discussion/Activity Guide for Artist Biographies
Ages: 5-8
Download a free Discussion/Activity Guide for Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter, western artist Charlie Russell, and Maxfield Parrish.
Ages: 3-7
Printable coloring pages, kid-friendly discussion topics, and writing prompts inspired by DOWNWARD MULE. Jenna will be posting a read-aloud of the zany picture book about community and confidence complete with yoga poses by March 19. Feel free to pause the reading to pose with your posse. Or listen straight through and do the barnyard yoga whenever a break beckons.
Draw Fire Truck with Shanda McCloskey – Live!
Ages: 5-10+
Thursday, March 26, 11am – Learn to draw Fire Truck from, FIRE TRUCK VS. DRAGON live with the illustrator! This is a part of a larger project called Stimola LIVE where you will find lots of LIVE steaming events from various authors and illustrators represented by Stimola Literary Studio. Visit here.
Ages: 4-8
Sam shares how to draw characters from her picture book CHICKEN LITTLE, THE REAL AND TOTALLY TRUE TALE.
Elementary School Worksheets and Art Projects!
Ages: 5-9
On www.radishlane.com/activities-home you will find coloring sheets, book worksheets, and art projects! You can find more information about Rachel on RadishLane.com and RachelDiNunzio.com. Enjoy!
FAERIE TALE FEET Coloring Pages
Ages: 6-12+
Coloring pages celebrating classic faerie tales and stories sent out weekly every Tuesday.
Ages: 4-10
These are easy and fun art activities for children. Activities use materials many already have at home.
Fun and Easy Art for Creative Kids
Grades: PreK-5
These art activities promote fun and creativity and use many materials families already have.
Ages: 3-7
Learn how to draw animal characters from a step by step activity sheet. Students are encouraged to email their drawings to mandy@mandyfoot.com.
Ages: 6-12
Erin Marie Mauterer posts videos of them drawing people’s pets. Very entertaining, and a good way to learn!
Ages: 3+
Learn how to make a collage with Supriya Kelkar.
Ages: 2-6
Mini coloring book by Terry Hojnacki helps encourage children to use their imagination while learning about schedules and practicing their coloring skills.
Ages: 5-13
Published Illustrator, Beth Peck, describes her process in illustrating children’s books such as MATTHEW AND TILLY and JUST LIKE JOSH GIBSON. Her website shows her sketches for several books.
Ages: 5+
Follow along from A to Z as illustrator Claire Sedovic shows you how to draw each animal from her debut picture book, ODD ANIMAL ABC’s!
Ages: 6+
Do a drawing each day based on a 1-word prompt. Each drawing connects to the previous one. Created by Greater Boston Illustrators’ Group. Search #storymarch on Instagram to see posts. To view all similar projects, search #authorshelpingkids.
THE ONLY LIVING GIRL Drawing Workshop
Ages: 8-13
Learn how to draw monsters and fantasy creatures in a graphic novel style with artist Steve Ellis!
THERE WAS AN OLD GATOR WHO SWALLOWED A MOTH Activities
Ages: 3-8
Craft and downloadable coloring pages for THERE WAS AN OLD GATOR WHO SWALLOWED A MOTH. Click on the links to find instructions for the craft, and click on the four coloring pages to download and print them. Enjoy!
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Grades: 5-8
Join Kelley McMorris as she describes the process of illustrating children’s books.
THE NEW KID Free Middle School eBook
Grades: 6-8
THE NEW KID is a funny chapter book that deals with friendship, bullying, and learning to take a stand.
ALL
Ages: All
Art projects anyone can do at home (for kids and adults).
Ages: All
A weekly lesson geared toward art history paired with an art lesson. Bring your paints, pens, and pencils!
Ages: All
Daily coloring pages, sometimes with hidden pictures.
Ages: 5-16
Free, downloadable coloring pages by Jane Heinrichs.
Ages: All
Create your own modeling clay masterpieces with these tips and techniques shared by illustrator Barbara Reid.
Ages: All
Happy coloring!
Ages: All
Daily photos on Instagram to act as writing prompts.
Story Soup Free Online Children’s Art Classes
Ages: 5-13
A free 6-week guided online art course for children. Content link available on Samantha van Riet’s website under FREE CONTENT.
Ages: All
Parents tweet their children’s idea. Illustrators draw it.