Free Early Childhood Art

Free early childhood art lessons, art activities and other art resources including art lesson plans, craft templates, crafts projects, receipes, and tips for early childhood kids.

The Visual Learning Foundation
Provides information, training and resources to enable teachers to provide improved art and design teaching to junior and infant school children.

Lesson Plans Art Project Index
Resource for teachers and people working with children, including ideas for arts and crafts projects, receipes, tips and professional advice.

Kinderart Littles
Art education for children of all ages. Parents and teachers contribute ideas, tips, projects and recipes for art and sensory activities. Sister site lists projects for K-12.

KinderArt
Free art lesson plans for use with young children.

DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Free printable templates for children's crafts suitable for preschool, kindergarten and grade school.

Elementary Art Lesson Plans
Traditional art lesson plans, computer graphics lesson plans, technology hints, and teacher hints.

Preschool Education Art
List of thematic art activities for young children.

NNCC Favorite Recipes for Art Materials
Recipes for making play-dough, paints, hardening clay, and bubble solution.

Why Teach Art?
Article explaining the importance of art in early childhood curriculum.

Crayola Art Education
Ideas and lesson plans for incorporating art across the curriculum.

Early Childhood Art activities
Classroom-tested ideas. Includes list of items with which kids can paint.