Planning for summer school shouldn’t feel like another full-time job. If you’re looking for ways to cut down on the time you spend planning lessons, purchasing materials, and setting up your supplies, you’ve come to the right place. Check out this list of six popular open-and-go art kits for summer school that will keep students engaged and excited to create!
Arts kits that cut down on prep time
- Ultimate Craft Kit: Make sure your cabinets or traveling totes are chock-full of arts and craft supplies to add color, texture, and pizzazz to any project! Use your supplies to investigate the bugs of summer and have students create their own insect with the De-bugs lesson plan, learn about the history of mosaics and embellish mosaic masks, or create tactile collages as they learn the art of personal storytelling.
- Beginner Makerspace Kit: Are you looking for ways to weave art into STEM lessons or STEM into art lessons? Then this kit is for you. It’s packed with supplies that students can use to create, prototype, and iterate. As students work with the materials, they’ll learn design thinking and develop problem-solving skills and perseverance. Pair this kit with fun bridge-building challenges, problem-solving through garbage car creations, or try an invention challenge to make chores easier.
- Arts Attack Visual Arts Curriculum: With turnkey video lessons paired with supply kits, all you have to do is open the box and teach art elements and principles to kids in grades K-8. They’ll love the fun projects and you‘ll love the minimal prep work.
- Cyanotype Classroom Kit: Make cross-curricular connections between art, science, photography, chemistry, and earth science with beautiful cyanotype projects. One of the earliest forms of photography, cyanotypes harness the power of the sun to produce a cyan-blue print. This kit provides everything you need for 30 students to create prints from objects, drawings, or photographs — all you need is a sunny day!
- Cool Art with Math & Science Kit: Weave math and science into art lessons with this all-inclusive kit. The six-book set included in the kit introduces math and science concepts through engaging art activities. With step-by-step directions, how-to photos, and all the supplies you need, you’ll be able to deliver lessons right out of the box.
- Needle Felted Mola Classroom Kit: Introduce students to needle felting and the importance of Molas to the Guna people with a fun cross-cultural fiber art project. This kit includes a lesson plan and enough supplies for a class of 24 students to learn about the Guna people, sketch their own Mola-inspired design, and recreate their sketch on felt.
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Dive into the treasure trove of free lesson plans, webinars, and blog posts on our Teacher Resource Center. You’re sure to be inspired by the projects and techniques shared by our experts, and you may even discover a new medium you’d like to try!