Fall Art Lessons for Kids

This Month's Art Lessons

Art on Main Street

Take a stroll down a whimsical autumn street with our sweater-wearing sausage dog. 

Fall Art Unit: Cozy Sweater Dog

Get cozy this fall with our sweet sweater wearing friend. Watercolors and oil pastels bring this four-legged pal to life.

Autumn on Main Street Collage

Take a stroll down an Autumn Main Street with our colorful collage. Emboss tin foil, use textiles for decoration, create painted paper, and more. Perfect for a family art project or one art-focused kiddo.

Fall Art Unit: Acrylic Owl Canvas

Paint an acrylic owl this fall. This sweet project is quick and easy, only requiring some paints and a canvas.

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Dino Art Unit – Dino Habitats Lesson

Students take a walk on the wild side as they explore prehistoric times. They'll choose to draw a friendly Triceratops, a long-necked brontosaurus, or a mighty T-Rex.

Cozy Clay Penguins – Winter Art Unit

In this lesson, we’ll use simple hand-building techniques like rolling balls, cutting shapes, and forming coils to build our penguin step by step. We’ll work with a few clay colors and focus on shaping, smoothing, and attaching pieces to give personality and charm to each sculpture.

Cozy Winter Cabin in Acrylics

Draw and paint a cozy cottage nestled in the snowy, winter woods. Perfect for young artists at any age, this project offers a tracer and drawing guides along with suggestions to make it their own.

Woodland Fox in Watercolors

Artists will draw and paint along to create a red fox using an oil pastel and watercolors. This is an easy lesson that really boosts young artist's confidence. Optional bear drawing guide included for independent art.

Fall Art Unit: Cozy Sweater Dog

Get cozy this fall with our sweet sweater wearing friend. Watercolors and oil pastels bring this four-legged pal to life.

Vintage Fall Camper in Acrylics

Artists start with acrylics or tempera paints and then bring their camper to life with supplies in their homes. No 2 campers will be identical as they stretch their creativity.

Fairy Pumpkin House

Artists create a whimsical home for their woodland creatures. Who lives in the pumpkin house? A fairy, a gnome, a mouse?

Autumn on Main Street Collage

Take a stroll down an Autumn Main Street with our colorful collage. Emboss tin foil, use textiles for decoration, create painted paper, and more. Perfect for a family art project or one art-focused kiddo.

Fall Art Unit: Acrylic Owl Canvas

Paint an acrylic owl this fall. This sweet project is quick and easy, only requiring some paints and a canvas.

Busy Squirrel in Watercolor

Draw and paint an adorable squirrel step-by-step, then create a story-filled scene with acorns, seasonal details, and your own creative twist. A flexible lesson using watercolors with an optional Sharpie—perfect for weekly art routines or creating simple, engaging creativity time.

Cozy Puff Paint Mugs

Create magic with a vintage mug in this holiday art class. Students will paint their own Snowman or Santa, with a personalized expression and a whipped topping swirl and paint in festive colors. This special holiday painting class is best attended with a real mug of hot cocoa and a dollop of delightful whipped cream!

Christmas Sweater Patterns in Watercolor

Artists create cozy winter sweaters as they use watercolors and crayons or oil pastels to create patterns. Younger artists can focus on a simple sweater cutout while older artists can choose more details for the background.