KINDERGARTEN ART ACTIVITIES
Primary Colors Art Activity
This art activity teaches the primary colors and complements the Core Knowledge Art Curriculum, featuring Pablo Picasso's “Le Gourmet” and Helen Frankenthaler's “Blue Atmosphere.”
Secondary Colors Art Activity
This art activity teaches the secondary colors and follows the Core Knowledge Art Curriculum, featuring the art history piece “Tahitian Landscape With A Mountain” by Paul Gauguin.
Color Wheel Art Activity
This kindergarten art activity teaches the color wheel: warm and cool colors, primary and secondary colors, and complementary colors.
Circles Pizza
This kindergarten art activity is great: students make a pizza using only circles and color, practicing one of art’s most important shapes.
Triangle Candy Corn
This kindergarten art activity practices drawing triangles while students recall a popular fall festival candy.
Square Waffles
This kindergarten art activity practices drawing squares. Color blending creates a warm, toasty golden-brown.
Winter Cabin Warm & Cool Coloring
This follow-along video uses a winter cabin scene with a snowman on a hill in front of a cozy cabin to practice warm and cool colors.
Tracing Thick & Thin Lines
This kindergarten art activity uses brush pens (they can do it!) to follow along with Katsushika Hokusai’s "Tuning the Shamisen."
Lines & Patterns
This art activity for kids, classrooms, and homeschool explores pattern through Henri Matisse’s work "Purple Robe and Anemones."
Intersecting Shapes
This kindergarten art activity, inspired by Joan Miró’s "People and Dog in the Sun," introduces basic shapes and color mixing.
Paper Totem Pole
This kindergarten color, cut, and assemble totem pole activity introduces young artists to Pacific Northwest Native art and storytelling, including Haida, Tlingit, and Kwakwaka’wakw traditions.
Statue of Liberty Draw Along
This kindergarten art activity is a follow-along drawing and coloring of the Statue of Liberty. If you have chalk pastels for the sky, this is a perfect activity to introduce this medium.
Ocean Life Paper Mobile
This kindergarten art activity, inspired by Alexander Calder’s Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, explores playful shapes and movement.
Space Race Color & Play
Inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games, students design their own outer-space game with planets, spaceships, and aliens.
KINDERGARTEN STUDENT ART ACTIVITY SAMPLES
