Third Grade ART ACTIVITIES

Warm & Cool Complements

This third-grade art activity, inspired by James Chapin’s 1928 Ruby Green Singing, starts with a traced hand and practices warm, cool, and complementary colors.

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Realistic Shading Activity

This third-grade realism activity, inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s "The Kitchen Maid," challenges students to build smooth gray tones with blending stumps and paper towels.

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Tessellations Activity

This third-grade Core Knowledge art activity, inspired by Margie Gorrecht’s Double Irish Chain Quilt (c. 1850), uses rulers to build patterns, tiles, and tessellations.

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Back, Middle, & Foreground

This art activity, inspired by Jean-François Millet’s "The Gleaners," covers the background, middle ground, and foreground, as well as four ways to create depth: size, color, detail, and overlapping.

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Illustrate The Scene

This third-grade art activity, inspired by Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom, has students draw themselves with a wild animal—such as the school mascot, Rocky the Rhino—while practicing four depth techniques: overlapping, size, detail, and color.

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3rd Grade Warm Cool Colors Hand Art PDF

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3rd Grade Introduction to Realism Vermeer PDF

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3rd Grade Depth The Gleaners Millet Art PDF

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3rd Grade Tessellations Quilt Art Activity PDF

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3rd Grade Depth Peaceable Kingdom Art PDF

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