A Christ-centered art curriculum for Pre-K (PK4) students that develops creativity, fine motor skills, and artistic expression through controlled exploration of various media. Students learn that creativity is a gift from God and explore basic art elements (line, shape, color) while creating representational art that tells stories and expresses ideas.
Draw recognizable shapes and people with increasing control
Use various art materials (paint, clay, collage) with intentional purpose
Mix colors and create simple patterns
Express ideas and tell stories through artwork
Recognize that creativity is a gift from God and art can show His beauty
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Introduction to art time, materials, and the idea that God made us creative like Him.
Exploring art materials and understanding art time routinesdiscussion and exploration📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Free drawing with crayons, exploring different colors and marks we can make.
Making various marks and lines with crayonshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Identifying and naming colors while drawing favorite things God created.
Color recognition and naminghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Tracing hands and decorating them, celebrating that God gave us hands to create.
Tracing and decorating within a shapehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a picture and telling someone about it, practicing sharing our creative work.
Verbal expression about artworkhands-on and discussion📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing straight lines in different directions (up, down, across).
Creating straight lines with controlhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing curved and wavy lines like snakes, rivers, and rainbows.
Creating curved lineshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making zigzag lines like lightning, mountains, and teeth.
Creating zigzag lineshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making dots and learning that dots are tiny circles we can stamp or draw.
Creating dots with controlhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Combining all types of lines in one creative picture.
Using various line types togetherhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Finding circles around us and drawing circle pictures (sun, balls, faces).
Drawing circleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing squares and rectangles, making houses, windows, and presents.
Drawing squares and rectangleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating triangles and using them to make trees, mountains, and roofs.
Drawing triangleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Combining different shapes to create a picture (house with triangle roof, circle sun, etc.).
Combining shapes purposefullyhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing shapes we see in our home and talking about where we find them.
Observing and drawing shapes from lifehands-on and observation📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Learning how to hold a brush, dip in paint, and make marks on paper.
Proper brush holding and basic techniquehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting with primary colors, learning their names, and exploring each one.
Using primary colors with controlhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making different kinds of brush strokes (long, short, dots, swirls).
Varied brush stroke techniqueshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using a brush to paint circles, squares, and triangles.
Brush control for shapeshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a complete painted picture using shapes and colors learned this week.
Completing a planned paintinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Mixing yellow and red paint to discover orange, painting orange things (pumpkins, oranges).
Color mixing: orangehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Mixing blue and yellow to create green, painting grass, trees, and frogs.
Color mixing: greenhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Mixing red and blue to make purple, painting grapes, flowers, and butterflies.
Color mixing: purplehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting a simple rainbow using all six colors we know (primary and secondary).
Using all six colors in orderhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Reviewing color mixing by creating a picture using colors we mixed ourselves.
Independent color mixinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Learning proper scissor hold and cutting simple straight lines.
Scissor safety and basic cuttinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Cutting paper strips and creating a collage by gluing them on paper.
Cutting strips and gluinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Cutting out simple pre-drawn shapes (circles, squares) and arranging them.
Cutting on lineshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Tearing and gluing tissue paper to create a colorful garden picture.
Tearing and layering paperhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Finding and cutting pictures from magazines to create a collage about things we like.
Cutting irregular shapes and composinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Exploring clay by squishing, rolling, and flattening it with our hands.
Clay manipulation basicshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Rolling clay into long snake shapes and creating designs with them.
Rolling clay into coilshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Rolling clay into balls of different sizes and stacking them (snowmen, caterpillars).
Rolling balls and connecting pieceshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Flattening clay and using tools or hands to cut out shapes.
Flattening and shaping clayhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a simple sculpture (animal, person, or object) using clay techniques learned.
Combining clay techniqueshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing circle faces and adding eyes, nose, and mouth.
Drawing basic faceshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing faces showing different emotions and talking about feelings.
Drawing expressive faceshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing simple stick figures with circle heads, line bodies, and line arms and legs.
Drawing basic human figureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing pictures of family members using faces and stick figures.
Drawing multiple figureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Looking in a mirror and drawing ourselves, noticing hair color, eye color, etc.
Observational drawing of selfhands-on and observation📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Learning that patterns repeat and finding patterns around us (stripes, dots, etc.).
Pattern recognitiondiscussion and observation📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing simple AB patterns with two colors (red-blue-red-blue).
Creating AB color patternshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating patterns using different shapes (circle-square-circle-square).
Creating shape patternshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using stamps or stickers to create repeating patterns.
Pattern creation with toolshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a picture with a patterned border around the edge.
Applying patterns decorativelyhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Observing flowers and drawing them with petals, stems, and leaves.
Drawing flowers from observationhands-on and observation📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing different kinds of trees God made (evergreen, deciduous, palm).
Drawing trees with detailhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Placing leaves under paper and rubbing with crayons to see their shapes and veins.
Creating texture rubbingshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing symmetrical butterflies with patterns on their wings.
Drawing symmetrical designshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite things from nature in one picture (garden scene, forest, etc.).
Composing a nature scenehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing animals using circles and ovals for bodies (cats, dogs, bears).
Using basic shapes to draw animalshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing fish with scales, fins, and tails, adding underwater plants.
Drawing fish with detailshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing birds with wings, beaks, and feathers in flight or on branches.
Drawing birdshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing farm animals (cows, pigs, chickens, horses) with simple shapes.
Drawing farm animalshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Choosing and drawing our favorite animal God created, adding its habitat.
Drawing animals in environmenthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Learning how watercolors work, adding water to make colors light or dark.
Basic watercolor techniquehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting on wet paper and watching colors blend together.
Wet-on-wet watercolor techniquehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting a rainbow with watercolors, letting colors touch and blend.
Color blending with watercolorhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting a sky scene with clouds using light and dark blues.
Creating value changeshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting simple flowers with watercolors, using light washes for petals.
Watercolor control for shapeshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making handprints with paint and turning them into pictures (flowers, turkeys, etc.).
Printmaking with handshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using sponges to stamp shapes and create textured pictures.
Stamping techniquehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using potato halves with simple shapes cut in them to make prints.
Repeated printinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Printing with objects from around the house (forks, bottle caps, leaves).
Experimental printinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a pattern design using prints from different objects.
Combining prints in patternshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making paper chains by connecting loops of colored paper.
Connecting paper in 3Dhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Folding paper to make it stand up and creating simple sculptures.
Folding and standing paperhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using paper tubes and boxes to build towers and structures.
Stacking and connecting 3D formshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Transforming a small box into an animal by adding paper features.
Constructing 3D figureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using various recyclables to build a creative 3D sculpture.
Independent 3D constructionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing three pictures to show the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Sequential illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing pictures of things we do during our day (wake up, eat, play, sleep).
Personal narrative through arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite scene from a favorite book or Bible story.
Illustrating from memoryhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a simple 3-panel comic strip with pictures and simple words.
Sequential art with panelshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Folding paper to make a small book and illustrating a simple story.
Book making and illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Finding textures around us (smooth, rough, bumpy, soft) and talking about them.
Texture observation and vocabularyobservation and discussion📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making crayon rubbings of different textured surfaces.
Creating texture through rubbingshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing patterns to show different textures (dots for bumpy, lines for furry, etc.).
Drawing visual texturehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a sheep picture using cotton balls for fluffy texture.
Adding real texture to arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making a collage using materials with different textures (fabric, sandpaper, foil).
Combining textures in compositionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a spring scene with flowers, baby animals, and rain showers.
Drawing spring imageryhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a summer picture with bright sun, beach, or outdoor fun.
Drawing summer sceneshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing autumn trees with colorful falling leaves and pumpkins.
Drawing fall imageryhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a winter scene with snow, snowmen, and bare trees.
Drawing winter sceneshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a detailed picture of our favorite season with reasons why we love it.
Personal expression through seasonal arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing pictures from the creation story (light, sky, land, animals).
Illustrating creation narrativehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing Noah's ark with animals going in two by two.
Drawing ark and animalshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Illustrating baby Moses floating in a basket among the reeds.
Drawing narrative scenehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing brave David facing the giant Goliath.
Drawing figures in actionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing Jesus with children around Him, showing His love.
Drawing group scene with Jesushands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Looking at a simple famous painting and describing what we see (colors, shapes, subject).
Art observation and descriptiondiscussion and observation📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Looking at flower paintings and creating our own inspired by what we saw.
Art-inspired creationobservation and hands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Viewing paintings of animals and discussing how artists show different animals.
Comparing artistic approachesobservation and discussion📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating our own painting inspired by a famous artist's style or subject.
Creating in response to arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Choosing our best artwork and displaying it like a gallery, talking about it.
Presentation and discussion of own workdiscussion and display📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating happy pictures using lots of yellow and bright colors.
Expressing happiness through colorhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting peaceful, calm scenes using blue and other cool colors.
Expressing calmness through colorhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making energetic art with red and warm colors to show excitement.
Expressing energy through colorhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing faces showing different feelings and coloring them with matching colors.
Connecting emotions and colorshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating abstract art with colors that show how we feel today.
Personal emotional expression through colorhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our own house with windows, doors, and roof.
Drawing familiar architecturehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our dream house with special features we would love.
Imaginative architectural drawinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing several houses in a row to create a neighborhood scene.
Drawing multiple buildingshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing tall buildings, castles, and towers reaching to the sky.
Drawing vertical structureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing the inside of a room with furniture and decorations.
Drawing interior spaceshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing cars and trucks using rectangles and circles for wheels.
Drawing land vehicleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a train with multiple cars connected together on tracks.
Drawing connected vehicleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing boats floating on water with sails or motors.
Drawing water vehicleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing airplanes flying through clouds in the sky.
Drawing air vehicleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a picture showing a journey using our favorite vehicle.
Narrative drawing with vehicleshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a bowl filled with different fruits God created.
Drawing fruit from observationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing vegetables with different shapes and colors.
Drawing vegetableshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a decorated birthday cake with candles and frosting.
Drawing decorated foodhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite picnic foods on a paper plate.
Drawing multiple food itemshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a poster showing foods we're thankful God provides.
Composition with food themehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a bright sunny day with sun rays and warm colors.
Drawing sun and sunny sceneshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating clouds using cotton balls or painting fluffy cloud shapes.
Creating cloud textureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing rain falling from clouds and puddles on the ground.
Drawing rain and waterhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Painting a rainbow appearing after rain with clouds parting.
Drawing weather sequencehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating falling snow using white on dark paper.
Drawing snow and winter weatherhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing many colorful fish swimming together underwater.
Drawing multiple fishhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing an octopus with eight curvy arms and a round body.
Drawing octopushands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a colorful coral reef scene with plants and sea creatures.
Drawing underwater plantshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing large sea animals like turtles, whales, or dolphins.
Drawing large sea creatureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating an underwater scene using torn paper, paint, and drawing.
Mixed media ocean scenehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing symmetrical butterflies with patterned wings.
Drawing symmetrical insectshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing bees with stripes, wings, and flowers to visit.
Drawing bees and movementhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing red ladybugs with black spots on leaves.
Drawing patterned insectshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly.
Sequential transformation drawinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a complete garden scene with flowers, insects, and sunshine.
Complex garden compositionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing firefighters with helmets, coats, and fire trucks.
Drawing uniformed figureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing doctors and nurses helping people feel better.
Drawing medical helpershands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing police officers with badges and police cars.
Drawing police helpershands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a teacher with students in a classroom.
Drawing classroom scenehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a thank-you card for a community helper with a drawing.
Purpose-driven illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a night sky filled with stars on dark paper.
Drawing on dark paperhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing different phases of the moon God created.
Drawing moon shapeshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing houses at night with lit windows and a moon above.
Drawing night scenes with lighthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing an owl perched on a branch under the moon.
Drawing nocturnal animalshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a camping scene with tent, campfire, and starry sky.
Night scene compositionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a birthday celebration with cake, balloons, and presents.
Drawing celebration elementshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing and decorating balloons of many colors floating in the sky.
Drawing and decorating balloonshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing wrapped presents with bows and decorative paper patterns.
Drawing patterns and decorationshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Designing and decorating a party hat with patterns and colors.
3D decorationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a decorative banner with flags, letters, and designs.
Sequential decorative designhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating art with quick, energetic movements while listening to fast music.
Kinetic response to musichands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making calm, flowing paintings while listening to slow, peaceful music.
Calm response to musichands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing musical instruments like drums, guitars, and trumpets.
Drawing instrumentshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Using colors that match how music makes us feel.
Emotional color responsehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating art while listening to praise songs, showing joy in worship.
Worship expression through arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a friendly monster with silly features we imagine.
Imaginative creature designhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a dragon with scales, wings, and fire breath.
Drawing fantasy creatureshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a unicorn with a horn, flowing mane, and magical surroundings.
Drawing mythical animalshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a new animal by combining parts from different animals.
Creative combinationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Inventing and drawing an imaginary pet we wish we could have.
Personal imaginative creationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Learning about symmetry by drawing one side and mirroring it.
Understanding symmetryhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Folding paper, painting one side, and pressing to create symmetrical butterflies.
Symmetrical printinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing faces and making sure both sides match.
Symmetry in portraitshands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating simple circular designs with symmetrical patterns.
Radial symmetryhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating art where both sides feel balanced and even.
Visual balancehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating art using our very favorite color in many ways.
Personal color preference expressionhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite animal in its habitat with details.
Detailed favorite subjecthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite food looking delicious and yummy.
Appetizing illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing our favorite place to be (home, park, grandma's house, etc.).
Place illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a picture of a favorite happy memory.
Memory illustrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a detailed drawing using all the drawing skills we've learned.
Comprehensive drawinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making our best painting using color mixing and brush techniques.
Comprehensive paintinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating a collage using cutting, tearing, and gluing skills.
Comprehensive collagehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making a clay sculpture using all the techniques we practiced.
Comprehensive sculpturehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Combining drawing, painting, and collage in one artwork.
Mixed media integrationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making a thank you card with a drawing for someone special.
Card design and messagehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Designing and decorating a bookmark to give as a gift.
Functional art designhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Decorating a frame for a special photo or drawing.
Decorative designhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making a small book of helpful things we can do for family.
Sequential book creationhands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Drawing a portrait of someone we love to give them as a gift.
Portrait for giftinghands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Looking at all the art we made this year and talking about favorites.
Reflection and appreciationdiscussion and display📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Choosing our very best artwork from the year for a portfolio.
Self-assessment and curationselection and discussion📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Creating any kind of art we want using our favorite materials and skills.
Independent creative choicehands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Making art that shows thankfulness to God for making us creative.
Worship through arthands-on📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Sharing our favorite artwork with family and celebrating all we learned.
Presentation and celebrationsharing and celebration📖 Start BibleMouse Lesson 🐭Start with Day 1 and work through at your own pace. Each lesson builds on the last!