2025 Year of the Snake

Welcome to the Contemporary Artists unit! Explore a range of styles, mediums, and subject matter reflecting life now. 

Bring creativity to life with this exciting unit exploring cartoon and anime-inspired art for K-6! Students will learn to draw expressive characters, from playful Chibi animals and Kawaii food to racing vegetables and quirky flowerpot chibis. Each sketching project builds drawing skill, character design, and colour techniques—encouraging imagination, storytelling, and artistic confidence.

Create with Fibre and Textiles! Make a gorgeous painted strawberry bag or a colourful woven basket. Learn how to sew a sweet teddy bear, weave a God's Eye for protection and design a T-shirt in these fibre and textiles lesson plans. Develop fine motor skills and design sensibilities while creating some gorgeous wearable and decorative artworks.

Explore Art from China with a range of inspiring lesson plans. Learn about the endangered Red Panda or the elusive Snow Leopard. Create a Lunar New Year animal paper cut or a wise dragon using a wide range of materials and techniques. 

Create amazing characters from Fairytales and Fables with these inspiring drawing, painting, collage and clay projects. There are fairies, princesses and princes, dragons and unicorns to draw, three bears to paint and a wonderful clay dragon to sculpt from clay. 5-6 students can discover Chibis with 6 different characters to draw. 

Students will have fun creating a range of artworks based on deadly and dangerous animals and sea creatures. Find out fun facts and create artworks of lions, snakes, poison dart frogs, blue-ringed octopus and lionfish. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different projects to life, based on some of the deadliest and dangerous creatures on earth. In this unit, we'll use collage, painting, drawing, mixed media and craft, whilst having fun. 

Dive in deep to the vibrant and diverse world beneath the waves! In this series of lessons, we will explore the beauty and mystery of aquatic life experiment with  painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture, to capture the movement, colours, and textures of the aquatic world.

Welcome to the Australian Artists unit! Many Australian artists are influenced by the vast environment the animals that live there. 

Create amazing buildings in this fun unit with art lesson plans inspired by architecture. There are exciting drawing, painting, collage and printmaking projects to create, inspired by Paul Klee and Dr Seuss. There's a city skyline to draw and paint and a collagraph house printmaking project to try. 

Explore Art from South East Asia with a range of exciting lesson plans. Try out different art materials and techniques including painting, drawing and fibre textile projects. 

Students will have fun creating a range of Arctic and Antarctic themed artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different projects from the coldest regions on Earth to life! 

Students will have fun creating a range of fish themed artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different fish projects to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, drawing, clay, mixed media and textile, whilst having fun in the watery realm. 

More About ME art lesson plans! In this unit many of the art lessons are based on self portraits and individualised projects where each student can focus on the self. Try colourful portrait projects inspired by Sandra Silberzweig and Romero Britto.

Explore Art from Australia with a range of exciting lesson plans. Try out different art materials and techniques including painted paper collage inspired by Pete Cromer, drawing, mixed media and painting.

Have fun with clay! Create and make relief and 3D clay projects with a clay turtle, starry night mobile and sheep to create. Learn how to make an animal relief clay plaque and an enchanting bobble head dragon. To really refine those clay skills, there is also a layered terrarium to make with textured plant details to inspire your class.

Explore Australian Aboriginal Artists and their culture in this second unit of colourful art lesson plans. We will use a range of materials and techniques including painted paper collage, drawing, clay and painting.

Explore Women Artists with these colourful art lesson plans. Your students can discover the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama and Faith Ringgold in these lesson plans. Create artworks inspired by pop artist Corita Kent and contemporary artist Jane Donaldson. 

Students will have fun creating a range of African animal artworks. We'll use stylised and realistic techniques to bring a variety of different African animals to life! In this unit, students will use collage, painting, ink drawing,  and printmaking, whilst having fun in the African savannah. 

Learn all about colour with monsters to create, sneakers to design and colour mixing artworks to create.  Learn about the art of abstract trailblazer Sonia Delauney and contemporary artist, Janet Skates whose works are both based on colour and contrast.