Description
Celebrate New Year 2024, with this creative warm and cool colors art lesson.
These coloring pages are a fun way to encourage students to set goals and work imaginatively this January.
This resource is updated for free each year at the end of November.
The challenge is to see if ‘2024’ stands out from the background when the coloring page is finished.
Your students’ artwork will make an eye-catching January bulletin board display for the beginning of the new year!
What’s included in this New Year 2024 resource?
- Digitally colored posters to display and use as color palette examples
- Activities to help students learn how to use contrasting colors
- Outline templates – choose from a variety of options. Confident students can expand the activity by drawing their own diagonal lines and numbers
- A 2024 goal-setting page
- A questionnaire, inviting students to respond to questions exploring their screen time, friendships, well-being, and more
- Blank templates for writing activities
- Classroom bulletin board banners and bookmarks
What materials will I need?
- Card stock for printing
- You can use marker pens, watercolor paints, colored pencils or oil pastels
- Scissors, pegs and string for the bulletin board banners
How can I use this resource with my students?
- Talk about what New Year means to them
- Encourage group discussion around goal setting and resolutions
- An experimental art lesson
- A handy sub-plan
- A fun Friday afternoon activity
- A brain break from tech
- A lesson about color, shape, and line
- Add to a New Year unit
- Build creative confidence
- Create a wonderful classroom display for 2024!
Happy teacher feedback
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Catherine W says, “My students loved starting the year revising warm and cool colours, and showing off their brilliant colouring skills. On a hot afternoon, this is the kind of task that is easy for them to engage with, and we now have super colourful display boards!”
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Nicole V says, “This was helpful and fun for my students to practise colour relationships on the colour wheel. It tied in nicely with our New Year unit.”
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Jody V says, “My students really enjoyed this. A fun, relaxing way to engage them on the first day back after winter break.”
I do hope you have fun with this resource!
You may like to view these creative seasonal resources:
New Year 2024 Cool Cell Phone Art Activity
FREE Year of the Dragon Art Activity
Like my work? Please stay in touch!
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this resource, I am always keen to help,
Thanks!
Diane
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