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Art-Making Activities & Coloring Sheets

Art-Making Activities & Coloring Sheets

Engage with the Museum from home or in the classroom with art projects and coloring sheets inspired by the Museum's collection. Use our activity sheets to experiment with different materials and techniques or fill in coloring sheets based on artworks in the collection, making them uniquely your own.

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Art-Making Activities (Grades K–5)

Create a Frame
Tin Foil Raised Art
Video: Floral Bookmark
Video: Window Suncatcher
Ruff Making
Drum Making
Paper Making
Color Expressions
Dream Wall
Year of the Ox
Curate the Collection
Decorative Cards
Gratitude Jar
My Space
Make a Sketchbook Journal (ages 5 and up)
Cubist Collage
Scratch Art
Make Your Own Clay
Telescope Viewfinder
My Aquarium
Come Sail Away
Nature Prints
Pattern Play
Sculptures for our City
Celestial Mounts
Pop-up Summer

Art-Making Activities (Grades 6–12)

Tin Foil Raised Art
Video: Floral Bookmark
Wire Portraits
Multimedia Self-Portraits
Mindful Moments
Make a Sketchbook Journal
Curate the Collection
Paper Making
My Space

Lesson Plans

Collaborative Collage
Essence and Mindfulness
Grid Drawing
Multimedia Self-Portraits

Coloring Sheets

Klee’s "Two Heads"
Coello’s "Portrait of a Young Noblewoman"
"Arrival of Paris and Helen at the Court of Priam, King Troy"
"Cosmic Vishnu (Trivikrama with Spouses)," India: West Bengal or Bangladesh
Degas's "Dancers in the Rotunda"
Goya's "Doña Francisca Vicenta Chollet y Caballero"
"Krishna Fluting in Vrindavan," India: Karnataka
Picasso's "Head of a Young Girl"
Picasso's "The Bull"
Picasso's "Woman with a Book"
Rembrandt's "Self-Portrait"
Rousseau's "Exotic Landscape"
Van Gogh's "Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier)"

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