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Favorite Art Projects for Kids: Roundup of Kindergarten Lessons

Perhaps you are new to my blog or you would like to see some of my favorite kindergarten art projects from the past.  Look no further!  Here is a round-up of my 10 favorites.

Collage of four kindergarten art projects with text "10 Favorite Art Projects for Kids" on the top left.

1.  Cool Hands, Warm Heart

A child's drawing of a colorful heart with two handprints, one on each side, warms the white background.

2.  Map of My Heart

Drawing titled "Map of My Heart" features a child's depiction of a heart with labeled images: person, house, fish, and the words "School," "Anikka," and "Birthdays.

3.  Paper Mache Rattles

Three homemade, circular Native American rattles, decorated with colorful drawings, feathers, and yarn for a kindergarten art project.

4.  Texture Teddy Bears

Child's drawing of textured teddy bears with red hearts and stars along the border.

5. Line Sculpture with Wire and Pipe Cleaners

Colorful pipe cleaners twisted into abstract line sculptures on a white piece of foam.

6.  The Dot

Abstract painting with creative uses of colorful dots forming concentric rings, dominated by pink, green, and purple colors.

7.  Clay Leaf Dishes

A handmade ceramic bowl featuring a green leaf imprint with red glaze details on a light gray background.

8.  Paper Weavings

A colorful kindergarten paper weaving pattern with red, green, and blue squares surrounded by various stamped circles.

9.  Line Paintings

Abstract painting with colorful sections and various black patterns, including zigzags, swirls, and dots. The vibrant spontaneity evokes the playful spirit of kindergarten art.

10.  Sunflower Observational Paintings

A drawing of two sunflowers with black centers in a blue vase, featuring green leaves in the background.

Also, I updated my blog header, because I wanted people to be sure of what my title means!  I realized that visitors might not quickly understand what it means.  I chose “Art is Basic” as my blog name because I believe (like you probably do) that art should be a basic, fundamental part of education.  Art should be a necessary and vital subject, not just a frivolous “extra” class to give the regular classroom teachers a break.  So, I changed my header to reflect that thought.  I was thinking that people might have interpreted the word basic to mean “simple or easy.”  Art can be simple.  Art can be easy.  But art can also be vastly complex, complicated, difficult and heart wrenching.  So, I wanted to make sure that first time visitors to my blog understood what I meant.

ART IS BASIC" text with a colorful chevron pattern below and synonyms like "fundamental" and "essential" in small print.


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

6 Responses to Favorite Art Projects for Kids: Roundup of Kindergarten Lessons

  1. rina says:

    Great post! Your kindergarten projects are so varied and colorful. I love that you do weavings and papier mache with the kinders. As a fellow blogger I’m on the same wavelength – my best kinder projects post comes out Monday 🙂

  2. Nice post – thanks for sharing. I love the change to the header – and the message. I couldn’t agree with you more. I wish all educators valued art as a core fundamental.

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  4. Jeanine says:

    Love love love it! All of this and your blog! I am new to your space but I knew right away what exactly you meant by Art Is Basic originally anyway and couldn’t agree with your words more. I homeschool & send to public school and I have noticed through watching her these years, thee very thing my youngest learns through IS ART in our case. Thank you for making all these resources available. I also know a bunch of art teacher bloggers that might be interested in sharing their grades art classes here; I’ll send them your links!

    • Awesome! Thanks so much for writing. I still kind of go back and forth about my blog name, but now it is what it is and probably shouldn’t change it. I don’t want people to misconstrue the word “basic” to mean that art is easy.. so that’s why I put the words below the header.

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