By Spramani Elaun
Quick Art Prompts For Kids can be planned with very little effort, and even keeping messes to a low impact! Whether you’re setting up at home or in a classroom. Quick Art Prompts can save the day as long as you have a little preparation in place.
I want to fast track you with a couple of quick suggestions to aid in art activities and prompts. I’ve taught thousands of children annnualy for the past 20 years in many different art programing situations, and I’ve picked up hacks that can set you up in a quick snap!
Art activities set-up shouldn’t be difficult—for you or for your students. Start off with quick simple, easy art lessons. It’ll keep your students captivated while you focus on putting together other presentations or just getting acclimated at the begining of a school year or new art program.
Quick Art Prompts And Demonstrations
You can start with basic lesson procedures such as technical material set-up demonstrations or presentations on how to properly manipulate mediums. Here’s a couple of examples of what I mean:
- You can demonstrate how the art area will be set-up.
- You can give presentations on how to set-up for watercolor painting and why all the tools work together, where to dry artworks, and how-to put materials away for the next artist to use.
- You can give presentation techniques on different ways to use mediums like color pencils; you can also remind children how not to misuse these materials.
- You can explain where art making will take place inside or outside the classroom.
- You can show how to clean up materials and tools properly.
- You can demonstrate how to manipulate mediums in different ways.
- You can prepare an inspiration gallery (ideas).
By taking time in the beginning for these lessons you set-up students for independence.
Quick Art Prompts For Kids
Once you’ve given your students basic demonstrations and presentations you can make materials available for your students to choose to explore independently. This frees you from needing to have art activites ready to present every day—just allowing them artistic expression and room to practice using the art materials will be a quick way they can work without you needing lessons ready to go, giving you more time to prepare for guided art instruction.
A few quick art mediums and materials to have set-up:
- Crayons
- Sketch pencil
- Eraser
- Watercolor
- Paintbrushes
- Wash jar
- Paper
- Scissors
- Glue sticks
- Color pencils
- Masking Tape
Paint bubble wrap and creat you own stamps.
Quick ideas (Download Art Activities Cheat Sheet)
Before I became a International art teacher trainer, I was an artist and homeschool mom. I also taught other art students from around my community how to create art, and have led programs in museums and educational conferences from different pedagogies throughout the world. With all this experience (more than three decades!), I’ve been able to observe the activities that excite and engage students. I’ve also learned what Quick Art Prompts require very little effort to put together and result in no stress at all! And that’s why I’ve made this download for you!
I’m so excited for you to check out this art activity cheat sheet. They’re easy for you and fun for your students!
You can download 10 FREE Easy Art Activities by clicking here.
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Quick Art Prompts For Kids