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Kindergarten Art Activities

33 kindergarten art activities. Teacher favorites: Circle Cut Outs and 9 Pieces Blank Puzzle. How teachers use these

Kindergarten Art Activities

33 kindergarten art activities. Teacher favorites: Circle Cut Outs and 9 Pieces Blank Puzzle. How teachers use these

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ActivityKindergartenCircle Cut Outs

These Circle Cut Outs will quickly give you templates for classroom decoration or student activities.

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ActivityKindergarten9 Pieces Blank Puzzle

This 9 pieces blank puzzle activity lets preschool through 3rd grade children draw a picture, cut out nine easy pieces, and build a puzzle to keep or give as a gift.

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ActivityKindergartenBlank Mask

Turn a Mardi Gras tradition into an easy craft with this blank mask worksheet. Kindergarten students color the template, cut it out, and wear their mask for a parade or a reader's theater show.

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ActivityKindergartenSnowman Cut Outs

This snowman cut outs worksheet gives kindergarten students four bold snowman shapes to color and cut out, building fine motor skills while making a cheerful winter craft for cards or bulletin boards.

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ActivityKindergartenDonut Cut Outs

These Donut Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities

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ActivityKindergartenTriangle Cut Outs

This triangle cut outs activity has children sort 12 shape cards and cut out big triangles. Made for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with an answer key included for quick checking.

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ActivityKindergartenBarn Cut Out

This barn cut out activity lets PreK to 3rd grade children color, cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper barn, roof and silo, then stand six farm animals beside it.

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ActivityKindergarten42 Pieces Blank Puzzle

Using this42 Pieces Blank Puzzle, students put together puzzle pieces to create a larger picture to build critical thinking and problem solving skills.

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ActivityKindergarten20 Pieces Blank Puzzle

This 20 pieces blank puzzle activity lets preschool to 3rd grade children draw, color and cut out their own puzzle, then solve it or give it as a homemade gift.

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ActivityKindergartenStar Cut Outs

This star cut outs activity lets PreK to 1st grade children count star points and sort star cards, then color and cut big stars. A practice page and answer key included.

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ActivityKindergartenArrow Cut Outs

Kids color and cut big arrows, build a My Day timeline book, and make a toy car path in this arrow cut outs activity for preschool to 3rd grade.

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ActivityKindergartenSquare Cut Outs

This square cut outs activity gives PreK to 3rd grade children bold squares to color, cut, and turn into a little book or a paper quilt.

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ActivityKindergartenLong Vowel U Puzzle

Using this Long Vowel U Puzzle, students match together puzzle pieces showing pictures and long U vowel sounds.

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ActivityKindergartenTree Cut Outs

This tree cut outs activity is a tree-shaped book for kindergarten to 2nd grade. Children color the cover, draw a tree, write about it, and cut out the pages on the bold line.

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ActivityKindergartenCloud Cut Outs

These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities

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ActivityKindergartenA Boy and His Dog Puzzle

This boy and his dog puzzle lets Preschool to 1st grade children cut out and rebuild a 15-piece picture of a boy and his puppy, building problem solving and scissor skills.

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ActivityKindergartenFamous Painters Flash Cards

These famous painters flash cards help K-5th Grade students match twelve artists to paintings in their style, with an answer key included, so kids grow a real eye for art.

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ActivityKindergartenLong Vowel O Puzzle

This long vowel o puzzle activity for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade has kids match pictures to oa, ow and o_e words, then sort them. Answer key included for easy checking.

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ActivityKindergartenShort Vowel U Puzzle

Using this Short Vowel U Puzzle, students match picture and word puzzle pieces with the short /u/ sound.

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ActivityKindergartenSpace Shuttle Cut Outs

These space shuttle cut outs give preschool to 3rd grade students eleven shuttles to color, cut and display, building fine motor skills for a fun space bulletin board.

From our teachers' playbook

Snip, color, create!

What do kindergartners learn in art?

Kindergarten art is about exploring materials and building small muscles. Kids learn to hold scissors and cut on a line, glue neatly, color inside shapes and mix colors to discover new ones (red + yellow makes orange!). They name colors and shapes in their work and talk about what they made. Art time also builds patience and following steps. The click moment is a child proudly holding up a project and explaining every choice they made.

Our favorite ways to teach art

Five-year-olds learn art by doing. These moves keep it creative and build real skills.

Make a mask

Give each child a blank mask and let them design an animal or a superhero. Talk about colors and shapes as they work. Then they wear it and introduce their character. Planning and talking about art builds language too.

Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.

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A color song a day

Start art time with a color song, then ask kids to use that color in their project. Red day, blue day, yellow day. By the end, they know every color word and can mix them on purpose.

Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).

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Draw a puzzle

Kids draw a picture on a blank puzzle, color it, then cut it apart and trade with a friend. It's fine motor practice, art and problem solving rolled into one happy activity.

Why it works: in a well-known study, a few short sessions of a simple number board game measurably boosted young children's number skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).

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What's on this page

Teacher favorites right now: Circle Cut Outs, 9 Pieces Blank Puzzle and Blank Mask.

Questions parents and teachers ask

What art skills do kindergartners learn?

Cutting with scissors, gluing, coloring, painting, mixing colors and naming shapes in their work. They also learn to follow steps and describe what they created.

How do I help a kindergartner cut with scissors?

Start with snipping strips of paper, then thick straight lines, then curves. Remind them "thumb on top" and let them turn the paper, not the scissors.

How long should a kindergarten art activity take?

About 15 to 30 minutes works for most five-year-olds. Break bigger projects into parts over a few days.

What are easy art projects for kindergarten?

Cut-and-glue shapes, color collages, paper masks, drawn puzzles and seasonal crafts are all simple and fun. Choose projects with a few clear steps and room for their own ideas.