21 Integrated Art Lessons for Elementary with Social Studies, Math, English & Science

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Reinforce Classroom Learning Without Planning Another Lesson From Scratch

You want art to be more than “one more thing” squeezed into an already-packed school day.

But finding projects that are creative and connect naturally with what students are learning in other subjects? That can mean hours of searching, planning, and making examples.

These Integrated Art Lessons for Elementary make those connections for you.

With ready-to-use art projects covering social studies, math, English, and science, you can reinforce classroom concepts through hands-on creativity—without starting from a blank page.

Just Print, Teach, and Make the Connections

Inside this value-packed collection, you’ll get 16 individual step-by-step projects plus 4 collaborative mural projects designed to overlap with elementary classroom studies.

Your lessons include:

Social Studies Art Projects

• White House — Explore where the President of the United States lives.
• Mayan Temple — Draw architecture from another culture.
• Igloo — Discover building methods from another climate and culture.
• Earth — Draw detailed continents on both hemispheres.
• Big Ben — Explore a famous landmark while practicing analog time.

Math Art Projects

• Gee’s Bend Quilt — Work with halves, quarters, eighths, and more.
• Fall Drawing — Practice estimating and dividing spaces into thirds.
• Cube — Turn a flat shape into a three-dimensional form.
• 3D Buildings — Transform flat building shapes into forms with dimension.
• Snowflake — Explore geometric shapes and radial symmetry.

English Art Projects

• Doodle Self Portrait — Encourage labeling as a bridge to sentence writing.
• Comic Book Pack — Combine drawing, writing, and storytelling.

Science Art Projects

• Vegetables — Explore underground plant growth, roots, and worms.
• Tree — Notice how tree branches change as they grow.
• Terrarium — Use watercolor resist to highlight plant root systems.
• Pasta Skeleton — Learn about the human body through art.
• Bee — Draw and identify the major parts of a bee.

Collaborative Mural Projects

• Water Cycle Mural Template — 3 sizes
• Solar System Mural Template — 2 sizes
• USA Map Template — 1 size
• Happy Vegetable Mural Template — 2 sizes

You’ll also receive Google Slides, step-by-step instructions, PDF lesson downloads, sample projects, materials lists, project descriptions, teaching notes, and videos for the open-and-go digital projects.

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Imagine Students Seeing How Everything Connects

Instead of teaching subjects in separate little boxes, your students get to draw, build, notice, question, and create their way through classroom concepts.

And you?

You’re not spending Sunday afternoon piecing together four different lesson ideas.

You’re ready.

Be the Teacher Who Makes Learning Stick Through Art

You’ll have meaningful projects at your fingertips that make it easier to bring creativity into everyday learning—even when your planning time is already spoken for.

More connection. More creativity. Less prep.

👉 Get the 21 Integrated Art Lessons for Elementary and start teaching across the curriculum with confidence.

 

WATER CYCLE MURAL Template in 3 sizes

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARD (MS-ESS2.C-4) Water continually cycles among land, ocean, and atmosphere via transpiration, evaporation, condensation and crystallization, and precipitation, as well as downhill flows on land. (Murals is in 3 sizes: 6, 12 and 20 pages)

 

 

SOLAR SYSTEM MURAL Template in 2 sizes

SCIENCE STANDARD: Earth’s Place in the Universe

Students who demonstrate understanding can: 1-ESS1-1. Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. (Mural is in 2 sizes: 9 and 25 pages)

 

 

 

USA MAP Template in 1 size

Mural template comes with the line art to make a large map that is perfect for classroom bulletin boards. Just print the pages, trim, and have your students color away. A color guide is included. (Mural is one size: 30 pages)

HAPPY VEGETABLE MURAL template in 2 sizes

SCIENCE STANDARD K-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Students who demonstrate understanding can use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.