Express Your Creativity!

$19.50

This summer camp lesson plan is centered around famous artists with hands-on, creative building activities and experiments to engage school-age learners. This summer camp unit offers five 6-hour lesson plans. They feature suggestions for hands-on activities, outdoor play, and social-emotional learning. Activities are standards-aligned to ensure quality content that helps children gain knowledge and prepare to move forward in grade school.

About our lesson plans:

  • Developed and tested by a team of experienced, certified educators

  • Immediate PDF download upon purchase with unlimited use

  • Activity pages, extension activities, and additional resources included at no cost

  • Developmentally appropriate

  • Printable format that is also digital friendly with links and QR codes embedded in the lesson plans

Camp Outline:

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Claude Monet
  • Monet inspired water lilies
  • Let’s get moving – Flowers and lily pads
  • Fingerprint bridge
  • Hands-on activity- Impressionism glue art part 1
  • Social-emotional learning – First impressions
  • Impressionism glue art part 2
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Vincent Van-Gogh
  • Starry Night painting
  • Let’s get moving – Shipwreck
  • Hands-on activity – Landscape window art part 1
  • Landscape window art part 2
  • Social-emotional learning – Help someone feel better
  • Watercolor self-portraits
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion – George Seurat
  • Eiffel-tower pointillism
  • Let’s get moving – Pencil eraser dot tags
  • Crawling colors
  • Hands-on activity – Candy rainbows
  • Social-emotional learning – RAKs scavenger hunt
  • Magic milk
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Pablo Picasso
  • Cubism portrait
  • Let’s get moving – Little cubes
  • Hands-on activity – DIY sidewalk chalk paint
  • Rainbow string painting
  • Social-emotional learning – Gratitude and happiness
  • Color changing volcano
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity-
  • Class discussion – Andy Warhol
  • Handy Andys
  • Let’s get moving – Repeat tag
  • Soup cans
  • Hands-on activity – Tie-dye t-shirts
  • Social-emotional learning – Be a superhero
  • Colored density experiment
  • Reflection