History art projects

Make time for art in primary!

History-themed art projects are an enjoyable alternative to extensive and time-consuming history activities. Hands-on history doesn't have to mean mummifying a chicken! These 30 + art lessons, projects, and tutorials are available for free!

Logan and I first attempted to make a Greek-style pot by covering a glass vase with air-dry clay, which worked years ago for his older brothers, but this time the clay cracked as soon as it dried. His brothers were younger when they made their Greek pots out of root beer bottles covered in clay. We went back to the drawing board and decided to make a paper mache Greek-style pot, using instructions in the Story of the World Volume One Activity Book, and gleaning various ideas online. Mixing…

Miss Oetken's scratchtastic Greek Vase with Achilles from Greek Mythology We've moved on in our art history time line to Greek and Roman art and we're concentrating on Black Figure Greek pots and vases! We learned about some of the popular basic shapes of pottery and their functions for what they were used for back in Greek and Roman times. I made two types of hand outs and worksheets for students. One that explained the basic shape of the popular vases we were looking at and another that…

This culture jars art lesson is a great way to showcase each individual students' celebrations, traditional food and meals, and customs.

Students love creating cave art paintings! Lots of art materials are used for this layered project. I like to have my students create these projects at the beginning of the year to build their conf…

Make this fun papyrus paper for your next art project! The texture adds a unique touch!! Great activity while studying Egypt

I turned the kids into Pharaohs! Took photos of them and printed them out. Cut and pasted onto brown paper. Then, I had the kids use markers to draw clothing and color with oil pastels. We talked about geometric shapes like pyramids and triangles. And we talked about patterns like stripes that are found in textiles. We also talked about Egyptian paintings on papyrus. Aren't they great?

It’s no secret that we are in love with the resources from Home School in the Woods. We’ve used notebooks and lapbooks resources from different places and the beautiful materials that they produce are the