Interior of a House: Brainstorming handout.

Just like the Exterior of a House handout, here is a quick reference for the Interior of a House.

A quick lesson on interior and exterior is to have kids fold a paper and make the outside the exterior, and the inside of the paper the interior.  This little page gets them brainstorming all the things that belong on the inside, all the rooms they need to include, all the furniture, and all the little details.

Musical Clip Art Handout brainstorming reference

Music is a great subject matter for visual art!  With primary students it can reinforce instrument names and types. Intermediate and secondary students can relate more to the sounds and songs they like, and think about visual rhythm.  Clip art is never a good substitute for something drawn or created by the students, but it works well as a reference and to get students brainstorming.  This Musical Clip Art page is exactly what it sounds like.  Several clip art instruments on one page for quick reference.

Animals in Art brainstorming worksheet

We use animals as themes for lots of projects.  Sometimes it's specific, like farm animals or sea animals, but other times I want students to brainstorm their favorite animal.

This worksheet gets kids thinking of all sorts of different animals.  It also has some cute pictures that I got from doverpublications.com.  I've used this to start animal printmaking lessons, model magic sculptures, foil engravings, and even surreal paintings.