K-5 Art lessons – 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!

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“Owls at Night” – grades 2 + 3

October 26, 2025 4 Comments

Loving these SWEET owls by my 2nd and 3rd grade students! In the past, I’ve only taught this to my 2nd graders, but I never did the lesson last year- so I had 3rd graders do them as well.

This was a 3 day lesson (40 minute art classes each)

DAY 1

I showed them step-by-step under the document camera how to draw the owl on a sheet of 9×12” 80# drawing paper with pencil.

DAY 2

Then they colored them in (just the moon, owl, and branch with leaves) with crayons, making sure to press down hard as they colored. They could color in the owl with whatever colors they wanted .
Then they added stars to the sky with a yellow crayon pressing hard, and outlined everything except the stars with a black crayon pressing hard as they outlined.