Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!

Need a few ideas to teach your kids about the life and art of French modern artist Henri Matisse. We’ve got ‘em. Start by reading the biography to get acquainted with Henri Matisse, and then click and print these fun and free lesson resources.

Biography
Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis in Northern France. His parents, Emile Matisse and Heloise Gerars, owned a general store where they sold household goods and seed. Henri was their first son. As a young man, Henri traveled to Paris to study law. In 1889 he returned home to work in a law office as a clerk. It was around this time that he had an attack of appendicitis, which required surgery. To make the long recovery more enjoyable his mother gave him a paint box. It was then, at the age of 21, that Matisse discovered painting and decided to become an artist…

Read more on MakingArtFun.com

Matisse Word Search Worksheet
Try a free printable word search worksheet that is actually designed to help your kids read better.

Henri Matisse Word Search on MakingArtFun.com

Color a Matisse Masterpiece
Print and color a free coloring page of Matisse’s Woman with a Hat (1905).

Woman with a Hat from MakingArtFun.com

Draw a Matisse Masterpiece
Add a drawing project to your lesson plans. This line drawing is easy to recreate, and a great way to get connected to the artist. Don’t worry… it’s easy. Just click, read the directions, and draw.

La Pompadour: Drawing Lesson on MakingArtFun.com

Art Masterpiece Cookie
Try making an art Masterpiece cookie. Art has never been this delicious!

Henri Matisse | Cookie Masterpiece lesson on MakingArtFun.com

Materials
4″ Sugar Cookies
Cookie Frosting
Food Coloring
Popsicle Sticks

Meet the Artist Job Application
This free printable artist worksheet is a fact-based worksheet in the form of a job application that your students can fill out for the artist of your choice. It’s a great alternative the a study guide.

“Meet the Artist” Job Application | Worksheet

Desktop Wallpaper
Download a desktop wallpaper for Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Hat from MakingArtFun.com.  Every trip to the compuer will be like a visit to the art museum.

Woman with a Hat Desktop Wallpaper from MakingArtFun.com

Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!

Want to give your kids the opportunity to discover their inner Picasso? It all begins with connecting kids with great resources that engage them and teach them what they need to know to succeed.

Here’s five fantastic Picasso-centered art projects/activities from our site and others, that are sure to excite your young artist. Start be introducing your child to Picasso with a biography about his life and work. Then dive into the activities.

Hey Kids, Meet Pablo Picasso – Biography for Kids
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25,1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco, an art teacher, and Maria Picasso y Lopez. At an early age Pablo showed an interest in drawing. His first words were “piz, piz”, which is short for “lapiz”, the Spanish word for pencil…

Paint Your Own Picasso – Interactive Activity
Paint Your Own Picasso is an online activity that provides kids with cubist facial features that they can drag to the pre-drawn face, and then arrange until it looks perfect. When your masterpiece is complete you can print it.

Mr. Picasso Head – Interactive Activity
Mr. Picasso Head is another online resource for kids, providing them with graphics to drag, drop, and arrange their own cubist-style portrait. Change the colors, or resize, flip or rotate the features. When your masterpiece is complete, sign it, and add it to their Gallery.

Picasso Art Masterpiece Cookies
Art has never been this delicious! This project gives kids a chance to turn a sugar cookie in cubist style art.

Materials:
4″ Sugar Cookies
Frosting
Food Coloring
Popsicle Sticks
Icing Bag

Create a Cubist Montage
This art project helps kids to understand that cubist art works show the same thing from several sides at the same time. Kids will create a cubist work with magazine clippings, assembling and gluing eyes, hair, noses and lips from multiple angles.

Materials:
Photographs of People
Scissors
Glue
Paper for Base of the Collage
Colored Pencils, Markers, or Paints
Acrylic Varnish
Paintbrush

Picasso Self Portrait | Coloring Page
Make it simple. Grab you crayons and print this free printable coloring page of Picasso’s self portrait. Encourage your kids to observe the colors and brush patterns in this work, and reproduce it as best they are able.

Picasso’s Three Musician’s Watercolor Project
This watercolor project is a printable step-by-step introduction to the art of Pablo Picasso. It offers basic watercolor painting techniques, while guiding students in the painting of the harlequin musician from Picasso’s Three Musicians of 1905.

Materials:
Watercolor Paints
Watercolor Paper
Watercolor Paint Brush
Pencil
Cup of Water
Paper Towel (to blot those unexpected mistakes)

Have fun!

Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!

Need a few ideas for an art lesson on French modern artist Georges Seurat? Here’s a guide to few few of our resources, as well as links to one of our favorite educational resource sites – GardenofPraise.com.

Biography
Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. His father Antoine Chrysostom Seurat was a native to Champagne, and his mother Ernestine Faivre was a Parisian. He also had a brother and a sister, Emile and Marie-Berthe.

Read more on MakingArtFun.com

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Jigsaw Puzzle
Try working an online jigsaw puzzle of George’s Seurat’s masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It’s a fun way to get kids more familiar with great works of art. The virtual puzzle pieces can be rotated to provide a greater challenge for older students.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Jigsaw Puzzle from GardenofPraise.com

Georges Seurat Coloring Page
Grab your crayons and color George Seurat’s Famous pointillist masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884).

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | Coloring Page from MakingArtFun.com

Georges Seurat Word Search Worksheet
Print and solve a Georges Seurat free printable word search worksheet. It’s a fun way to review the most important stuff about Seurat’s life and work.

George Seurat Word Search Worksheet from MakingArtFun.com

Georges Seurat Study Guide Worksheet
After you have read the biography on GardenofPraise.com, follow it with a 7 question free printable worksheet. Questions include, “What island had a great influence on Seurat’s work?” and “What pet does the woman with the black umbrella have on her leash?”

Georges Seurat Study Guide from GardenofPraise.com

We’ve just added five artist biographies, free printable worksheets and a new art project. We hope you will learn from and enjoy what we have created for you.

Meet the Artist Biographies

Hey Kids, Meet Hieronymus Bosch
Hey Kids, Meet Michangelo
Hey Kids, Meet Wassily Kandinsky
Hey Kids, Meet Paul Klee
Hey Kids, Meet Claude Monet

Printable Meet the Artist Biographies

Hey Kids, Meet Hieronymus Bosch
Hey Kids, Meet Michangelo
Hey Kids, Meet Wassily Kandinsky
Hey Kids, Meet Paul Klee
Hey Kids, Meet Claude Monet

Word Search Worksheets
Build reading skills with our free printable artist word search worksheets. Let your students know how many words there are to find, and then ask them to complete the word search by identifying and circling the keywords found in the biography.

Hieronymus Bosch | Word Search
Michelangelo | Word Search
Wassily Kandinsky | Word Search
Paul Klee | Word Search
Claude Monet | Word Search

Art Project for Kids
Students will be introduced to the art of Renaissance artist Michelangelo, and will recreate an excerpt of his Creation of Adam from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and learn about subtractive process sculpting as they carve a goldfish from a bar of Ivory soap.

Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam | Lesson
Goldfish Soap Sculpture (Michelangelo) | Lesson

Have Fun!

Our free resource art site, MakingArtFun.com, features the biographies of our major artists, along with a collection of printable resources and lesson ideas that make learning fun!

Start here, by getting to know a little about the artist, and then enjoy the free lesson resources that will help to instill in children an greater appreciation for art, and the creative process.

Renaissance Era Artists (1495-1600)

Leonardo da Vinci

Albrecht Dürer

Baroque Era Artists (1600-1750)

Jan Vermeer

Romantic Era Artists (1750-1860)

Albert Bierstadt

Impressionist Era Artists (1860-1900)

Mary Cassatt

Edgar Degas

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Modern Era Artists (1900-Present)

Painters/Sculptors

Alexander Calder

Marc Chagall

Henri Matisse

Piet Mondrian

Grandma Moses

Pablo Picasso

Georges Seurat

Cartoonists

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Charles M. Schultz

Walt Disney