art activities for kids – Art with Mrs Filmore

November 30, 2025 2 Comments

Below are 22 Winter Art Lessons ranging from K-5th grade and Special Education. These are a variety of winter art lessons that I’ve taught over the years since 2012. I hope that this post will give you some fun winter art lesson ideas to use in your classrooms!

To find each lesson, just go to the main menu and select the grade level that each lesson is from and scroll down the page to view more photos, directions with steps, and the learning goals!

5th GRADE

WINTER NORTHERN LIGHTS

This is a NEW lesson that I created 12/17/25 and just posted a new blog post on it! Please check out the blog post with details on how to create it by typing in Winter Northern Lights in my search box —Or—by visiting my “5th Grade Art Lessons” page in the drop down menu. ***Update: I just added my new YouTube tutorial on this lesson below too!

(Holiday Lights lesson inspo from @artwithmrsnguyen )

4th GRADE

(Lesson idea from LauraLee (@2art.chambers)

(lesson idea from @mrsallainart and @2art.chambers)

3rd GRADE

Below is my YouTube tutorial on the 3D Winter Mugs

(Polar bears lesson inspiration from @2art.chambers)

2nd GRADE

(Winter Bears in Sweaters lesson idea from @2art.chambers)

1st GRADE

The mixed-media snow globe is a 1st grade art lesson that is NEW (started in Nov. 2025) and is still underway. I did a blog post recently on the steps to create it and added photos of students artwork from day 1 so far. I will add a new blog post on the final artwork with more details as well as add it to the 1st grade art lessons page once complete! I also have a snow globe PDF template in my TpT store for $1.50

(I have another version of this winter landscape lesson under Kindergarten art Lessons – with pink paper and snowflakes created with fingertips dipped in paint!)

(Mixed-Media Alphabet Soup lesson idea from @2art.chambers)

KINDERGARTEN

SPECIAL EDUCATION

I hope that you enjoyed looking at these winter art lessons!

I also recently added some fun Q and A to my “About Me” page (under the drop down menu). The Q and A is at the bottom of that page – so check that out if you haven’t yet!

I also added a new “Comments Page” where you can read comments that I collected from all over my websites pages and put all together on one page!

Thank you for visiting my website and be sure to check back for new posts coming up later this week!

A Note to my students

Dear students at Roosevelt and Amvet,

I miss you all!! ❤️

I hope that you and your families are all staying safe and healthy and are enjoying some imaginative, fun ways to create art at home!

I, along with the other two elementary art teachers of North Attleboro are hard at work coming up with creative, fun and engaging art activities that you and your families can try at home while school is closed. Be on the lookout for these fun art activity suggestions! They will be posted on the NAPS extended learning webpage SOON.

I’m also going to be creating some fun NEW step-by-step drawing video tutorials on my YouTube channel soon! I’ll blog these videos once they are filmed and edited and add them to my YouTube channel as well.

I just added some new photos of students creating art. My “Students Creating Art” link can be found under the main menu of this blog. Check that out after reading this if you haven’t already!

If you haven’t checked out my Art Games page, you can click on that link under my menu and play free educational art games as well!

Students, Remember the “What should I draw?” jar in my art room that you could use if you finished an art lesson early?! I’ve JUST included a link to all my original “What Should I Draw?” jar drawing ideas. You can check out that same exact list of drawing ideas found in my jar, HERE! Feel free to copy and print out these for fun drawing ideas to use at home! The link is also in my menu of this website.

1st-5th grade students from both Amvet and Roosevelt North Attleboro Elementary schools- Please Feel free to Email me any photos of any art you’ve been working on while at home! I’d LOVE to hear from you and see what creative things you have been up to!! My teacher email is mfilmore@naschools.net which is also listed in my contact page of this site.

Below are some AWESOME 2nd grade Abstract Self-Portraits students finished creating at Roosevelt Elementary School before schools closed for the time being. I wish I took a photo and could share EVERYONE’S, but was only able to capture a handful. More about this lesson with students creating them below the artwork.

This fun self-portrait lesson combines art exploration in abstract art and color theory!

This lesson took (3) 40 minute art classes to finish.

On the first day of the lesson, students learned about abstract artwork and looked at a slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning to name a few). We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors.

ON DAY 1 After viewing the slideshow and doing a quick demo, students drew an abstract drawing using various lines, and shapes on 12×18″ medium weight tagboard. Students then went over all their lines with crayons being sure to press super hard (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). They then filled out a short questionnaire with questions asking about their favorite things and things about themselves.

ON DAY 2 They painted their drawings using concentrated liquid watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist. Before painting we reviewed what the primary colors, secondary colors and warm and cool colors were. While kids worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper).

ON DAY 3 Students glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting. Then students cut out their pre-printed sentences into strips and added them to their paintings using a glue stick!

Thank you Bridgette ( http://guerzonmills.com) for the idea!

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and check out other sections on this website for additional art resources and inspiration. And again, be on the lookout for some fun art activity suggestions you can try out at home that us elementary art teachers have created. These art activity suggestions will be posted on the NAPS Extended Learning district webpage soon. Awesome resources are available on that website for students/families to use already!

Stay safe and be strong!…….We will get through this!!

I miss you all so much!!

💗Mrs. Filmore