Landseer’s Dogs and Their Stories ~ Free

What a great series! Stories Picture Tell by Flora L. Carpenter offers an easy way to cover art each year for eight years! These free eBooks encompass an entire art appreciation course that makes it easy to add this discipline…
The Science of Drawing: Being a Progressive Series of the Characteristic Forms of Nature by Frank Howard is a series of drawing instruction titles that focus on trees, animals, and the human form. You can read our review and find…
The Science of Drawing: Being a Progressive Series of the Characteristic Forms of Nature by Frank Howard is a series of drawing instruction titles that focus on trees, animals, and the human form. The first two parts are in the…
Here is a beautiful resource from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Picturing America is a 130-page Teacher’s Resource book with 20 lessons that explore America through art. Picturing America: …offers a way to understand the history of America —…
Here is a summer fun activity with purpose: create a photographic summer wrap-up collage! Have your child take digital pictures of those things he most enjoyed during the summer. The pictures can be of souvenirs, keepsakes, collections, places, or other…
Augsburg’s Drawing was a “three book system designed to teach form and color in the public schools” published in the early 1900s. The drawing instruction series included a teachers’ handbook to be used to teach first through third graders drawing…
Each year Jan Brett offers a free calendar download, usually based on one of her latest books. This year’s calendar is based on her book The Turnip, a fun twist on a Russian folktale about a family’s efforts to pull…
Each year Jan Brett offers a free calendar download, usually based on one of her latest books. This year’s calendar is based on her book The Animals’ Santa. Just print the beautiful artwork pieces for each month on a standard-sized…
The Library of Congress has put together a wonderful teacher guide for learning about Thanksgiving through primary source documents. The free 7-page download begins with historical background information on how on our nation has celebrated a day of thanksgiving throughout…
On October 23, 1903, Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith sold their first crayons. The box of eight red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black sticks sold for 5¢. Edwin Binney’s wife Alice named the brand Crayola from…
Meet the Masters Program Manual is a free 247-page art appreciation instruction download provided by the school board of Broward County, Florida, as part of its volunteer program to help expose all children to fine art: Meet the Masters…
Here is an easy way to add a quick art appreciation lesson into your day. Download this free Art in the Classroom Manet Poster with activities from the National Gallery of Art. The download features a beautiful printable of The…