A Homeschool Art Curriculum That Colors Their World
Integrating art into your homeschool curriculum offers a wonderful platform for your child to tap into their creative potential. There’s nothing quite as fun as witnessing the spark in their eyes as they explore colors and various art techniques.
At Homeschool+, we weave that charm into daily learning through our vibrant and interactive art curriculum. Its flexible structure and engaging lessons are designed to support home educators as their children begin their artistic journey.
What Art Skills Can My Child Learn with the Homeschool+ Curriculum?
Integrating art into your homeschool curriculum not only paves the way for exploring creativity and art appreciation, it can also improve fine motor skills and help children build their focus and ability to concentrate on projects. Homeschool art can be taught in a variety of ways, but for young learners, building an understanding of colors and their relationships with each other is a fun way to start.
The Homeschol+ art curriculum lets your child explore a spectrum of hues and discover the magic of different shapes, all while learning essential art techniques and skills. With each lesson, their creativity can flourish as they use hands-on projects to bring their artistic visions to life.
Our curriculum features ready-made lesson plans, simplifying the process of bringing art into your homeschool and allowing you to tailor the experience to your child’s interests and schedule. Our offline lessons let you and your child choose which art activities to study further with three different levels of hands-on exploration.
Along with learning about colors and shapes, your child also has the opportunity to grow the following skills:
Fine-Motor and Spatial Skills
- Builds hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and control
- Promotes spatial and visual thinking
Regulate Emotions
- Positive channel to express feelings
- Resilience while working through challenges
Boost Confidence and Self-Esteem
- Grow confidence through constructive feedback
- Practice decision making
Colors
The fun begins by learning about the concept of colors and moving on to understand, identify, and name primary and secondary colors. Your child will also learn that these colors appear in rainbows and in many other places, such as in nature and human artifacts.
Mixing Colors
Children will learn about the process of color mixing and how it works. They’ll create various shades and tints of primary colors and see the magic results of mixing certain colors together.
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Shapes
Shapes and their features are an important part of art and mathematics. Your child will practice identifying shapes and learn the terms associated with their defining features. Your child will also learn how these shapes are used in the world around them.
Dimensional Shapes
Circles, triangles, and rectangles take on 2D and 3D shapes. Children learn the basic properties of these shapes and compound shapes and how to describe and recognize them in their day-to-day activities. Through hands-on activities and visual aids, your child will gain a deeper understanding of the properties of these shapes and how to combine simple shapes to form more complex ones.
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