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Lines of All Kinds

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Students will learn about lines as they create a colorful picture using a variety of lines.

By: Amy Brown and KinderArt

Learning Objectives:

• To introduce students to the names of different kinds of lines.
• To introduce students to the vocabulary words: horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
• To give students the opportunity to paint with many colors within the boundaries of the lines they create.

What You Need:

• Paper 12″ x 18″
• Oil Pastels
• Tempera Paint (cakes or lique
• Line Variety Handout

What You Do:

Talk about the different kinds of lines – straight, angled, curly, etc. (see diagram)

Introduce the words horizontal (when a line runs side to side, like the horizon), vertical (when a line runs up and down) and diagonal (when a line runs on an angle).

Have the students draw different types of lines on their papers using oil pastels. Do this by saying out loud the type of line and the direction to draw the line.

When each line is complete, ask the children to switch to a new color to get ready for the next line.

Once the lines have been drawn, children fill in the spaces between the lines using brightly colored tempera paints.

About the Art Teacher

Amy Brown teaches art to students from K-5. She received a Masters of Art in Teaching in 2008 and her favorite activities outside of school are gardening, photography, reading, painting, spending time with her family. Find out more at Mrs. Brown’s Art Class.

Lesson reprinted with permission.

Thursday 11th of August 2022

Teaching little learners lines fits well Call of the Horizon Day on July 9th - especially with understanding horizontal lines. This activity is so colorful and fun. It makes me want to break out the oil pastels and tempera paints so I can jump right in and create. Thank you for sharing your colorful and imaginative JOY!

I'm so glad you like it! Thank you for the kind words :)

Monday 8th of March 2021

Thank you so much. As a 2nd/3rd grade teacher who only taught the core subjects, and has to teach ART virtually because of the pandemic, this was most helpful.

Rachel Malay

Wednesday 26th of August 2020

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge or expertise about the elements of arts. your website is very helpful good day ahead.

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Inspiring Creativity: 24 Line Art Activities For Kids

April 12, 2023 //  by  Seda Unlucay

From simple line exercises to intricate patterns, these 24-line art projects encourage children to explore different techniques, materials, and styles. They are designed to offer a diverse range of projects suitable for kids of all ages, skill levels, and interests. As kids experiment with various types of lines and compositions, they will develop problem-solving skills, spatial awareness, and artistic confidence. Dive into these engaging line art activities and watch your students’ creativity flourish!

1. Elements of Art Scavenger Hunt

In this scavenger hunt activity, kids search for various line types in their surroundings, art galleries, or works of various artists. Children can gain an understanding of the role of line in visual art by exploring its versatility in expressing movement, structure, emotion, form, energy, and tone. 

Learn More: Childhood 101

2. Art Project with Lines

Let kids unleash their inner artist by creating shapes with repeating lines while exploring repetition in art. This simple yet effective activity is suitable for kindergarten and first-grade students, providing instant gratification while requiring minimal materials. 

Learn More: Art Is Basic

3. Line Art With Dynamic Colors

Guide children to practice scissor-cutting skills by creating various lines and shapes from colored construction paper. This fun project  encourages creativity and improves fine motor skills while teaching kids about the connection between lines and shapes

Learn More: Playdough to Plato

4. Line Art With Floral Designs 

For this simple, hands-on activity, children draw a large flower, create a border around it, and divide the background into sections with lines. They then fill each section with different line patterns or doodles. Finally, they color the flower and background using their favorite art mediums. 

Learn More: Ms. Artastic

5. Abstract Line Drawings

This directed drawing activity helps children follow multi-step instructions and develop fine motor skills. Kids begin by drawing different horizontal lines with a black marker on white construction paper. Next, they fill the paper with various lines using watercolors, creating a visual masterpiece they can show off with pride!

Learn More: Carmel Mountain Preschool

6. Geometric Simple Line Drawings

Geometric line art is a fun and educational activity where kids connect dots using a pen or pencil and a ruler to create beautiful designs with straight lines. This activity enhances their understanding of geometric shapes and requires only simple supplies and printable worksheets, making it easy to set up and enjoy.

Learn More: It’s Always Autumn

7. Name Line Art

Invite students to create personalized artwork featuring their name by experimenting with various line styles and techniques. Children will develop confidence in drawing and self-expression while learning about lines as a fundamental element in art.

8. Line Art Exercises for Art Students

The optical illusion-based hand art activity involves tracing a child’s hand on paper and drawing horizontal lines across the page, with arches over the traced hand and fingers. It’s a compelling way to develop their concentration abilities and boost spatial awareness while creating unique artwork. 

Learn More: Candace Ashment

9. Paper Line Sculptures

For this 3D, textured activity, kids work with pre-cut paper strips to create paper line sculptures. The project helps develop fine motor skills, introduces different types of lines, and teaches paper manipulation, all while exploring the concept of sculpture.

10. Line Art Collage

Students begin this striking art project by painting vertical lines on one side of a piece of paper and drawing horizontal lines on the other side. Once dry, have them cut along the drawn lines and reassemble the pieces on a black background, leaving gaps to emphasize different line types. 

Learn More: Use Your Coloured Pencils

11. Crazy Hair Line Art Portraits 

This zany and fun idea invites kids to explore various types of lines while creating self-portraits with imaginative hairstyles. Begin by introducing different line types like straight, curvy, and zigzag before having kids draw a face and upper body. Finally, have them fill the rest of the space with different types of lines to form unique hairstyles. 

Learn More: Little Dots Education

12. One-Line Drawings

Students are sure to enjoy creating colorful drawings by making one continuous line that fills the entire paper. They then trace the shapes formed and fill them with a monochromatic color scheme using colored pencils. This project helps kids understand the definitions of line and shape while providing a calming moment during the busy school day.  

Learn More: Splish Splash Splatter Art

13. Spiral 3D Line Drawing 

In this striking line art activity, kids create a radial design by drawing intersecting straight lines and arcs using a ruler and compass. They then fill the shapes with different patterns using black ink. This is a wonderful way to teach kids the concepts of symmetry and radial balance.

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14. Draw a Line Art Turtle

Kids will love drawing these adorable turtles using a black fine-tip marker. They can experiment with various patterns to fill the turtle shell, helping to establish a sense of freedom in art, where mistakes are celebrated as part of the creative process. 

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15. Kindergarten Line Art Project

Have kids draw lines with a black crayon on white paper, creating various shapes and patterns. Next, have them color some spaces with crayons and fill in areas using different types of lines, like dots and crosses. Finally, invite them to paint the remaining spaces with watered-down tempera paints or watercolors. 

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16. Doodle Line Art 

For this doodle art activity, kids draw a continuous, loopy line with a black marker on white paper, creating various shapes. They then color the shapes with crayons, markers, colored pencils, or paint. This activity helps kids practice coloring within lines and can serve as a relaxing and mindfulness-based activity. 

Learn More: Craft Corner DIY

17. Graphic Line Drawings

Using markers, paper, and paint, kids create graphic squares by drawing a simple grid on paper and filling each section with various shapes, lines, and patterns. Coloring with waterproof markers or watercolor paints adds vibrancy to their artwork. The activity can be further enhanced with black construction paper strips for a more dramatic effect. 

18. Optical Illusion Art with Lines

In this line art activity, children create a series of “doodle circles” by drawing circles on paper and filling them with various patterns and designs. This activity encourages self-expression and can be completed using various art materials, allowing for diverse outcomes and plenty of artistic exploration. 

19. Draw Emotions with Lines

In this activity, kids draw emotions using lines with oil pastels on paper. They start by scribbling, imagining their hand as an animal leaving marks. Next, they select emotions and corresponding colors, then draw lines representing each emotion. 

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20. Experiment with Line Drawing Exercises

Have kids engage in these four straight-line drawing exercises to improve their line control with colored pencils and other dry media. Kids will practice drawing parallel lines, graduated parallel lines, hatching lines, and value shift parallel lines. These exercises are fun, and easy, and can enhance kids’ creativity while improving their pencil control.

Learn More: Carrie Lewis

21. Hand Line Design Lesson

Have kids create a continuous line drawing by drawing an object without lifting the pen from the paper. They can start with simple shapes before gradually moving to complex ones. This activity encourages kids to develop observation skills, boosts creativity, and improves hand-eye coordination while offering a fun and engaging drawing experience.

22. Drawing Bottles With Parallel Lines

In this line art activity, students create a three-dimensional visual effect using parallel lines. They draw large bottles with a pencil, then use felt-tip pens in a sequence of three or four colors to fill the bottles with parallel lines. For the background, students draw curved, parallel lines with different color sequences. This activity develops their understanding of colors, and positive-negative space while creating the illusion of volume.

Learn More: Arte Scuola

23. Contour Line Rainbow Shapes

Invite students to create contour line rainbow blobs using watercolor and marker techniques. Have them start by drawing eight circles in pencil and filling them with analogous colors using wet-on-wet watercolor and marker wash techniques. After the water dries, students can trace the circles with contour lines, creating an interesting visual effect. Finally, they can add shadows with a pencil and shading stump. 

Learn More: Tabitha Ann

24. Expressive Line Art

In this line art activity, students create layered line designs by drawing various types of lines from one edge of the page to another, keeping them thin. They add more overlapping lines for depth and use paint to create a strong contrast between lines and negative space. This activity encourages spatial awareness, and pattern recognition while producing a striking result.

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How to Teach Line & Pattern | Elements and Principles of Design

Line is one of the first elements of art that sets the foundation for art making in elementary school. Teaching children about line empowers them to see how simple lines can turn into shapes and eventually, into advanced subjects and compositions.

A subject that they may have thought to be too difficult to draw, such as a clipper ship, all of a sudden becomes doable. What an exciting experience for children to have in the art room.

Teaching an art project designed specifically to teach children about LINE in your first few weeks of school is an absolute winning combination. Not only are line-focused projects relatively easy to prepare (all you need is paper and drawing tools), they can help set the foundation for a successful year of learning how to draw and create art.

So what exactly is a line and what types of projects teaches children the proper way to draw a line?

Let’s start with what a line is…

A line is defined as the path of a moving dot. Lines can vary in direction and thickness.

For young students, a LINE activity can be as simple as identifying basic lines: zigzag, bumpy, wavy, horizontal, etc.

For older students, the concepts increase in complexity by showing how lines can be used to show texture or expression in a work of art.

Combining LINE and PATTERN

Line is often paired with Pattern, which is a Principle of Design. In my opinion, they go together like peas and carrots.

While the definition sounds a bit complicated, it’s actually one of the most fun Principles to work with.

Here’s the official definition:

PATTERN is an arrangement made from repeating visual elements.

Let’s break that down…

When you draw a dot on a sheet of paper, it’s usually the start of something. It can go anywhere. The dot can keep moving, which quickly turns it into a line. Or it can go around or change directions and come back to join itself, which becomes a SHAPE.

But when it hops around, let’s say in equal distances, it becomes a dotted line. Or if it can’t make up its mind and goes from a dot to a line back to a dot and then again to a line…that’s a PATTERN.

I love drawing patterns in art and so do kids.

How to Teach Line + Pattern

In the video below, I show you how to teach Line and Shape by drawing a simple pattern turtle (great for ages 5-8) and a Pattern Rooster (great for 8-12).

Tip: this is an older video that shares lots of info about our Elements of Art Curriculum, but if you want to go straight to the drawing portion, skip to the 9:28 mark .

Interested in starting your year refreshed, prepared and ready to go?

Download our back to School Guide |Resources to help kickstart your art program

It’s a 3-part strategy on how to use the Elements of Arts when planning your art curriculum including ordering supplies, a grade level checklist for the scope and sequence of K-7 Elements of Art and What I’ll Learn in Art Class posters.

To learn how to teach the Elements of Art to elementary school students, here are a few posts that will get you started:

How to Teach Shape

How to Teach Color

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I really like the project ideas for line and pattern included in the EPIC curriculum. Would love to get in on a membership option before August is over!

great way to start the year!

Love this activity!

Interesting ideas

would love to have the download

Love these videos

Great lesson

I have used ideas from you about specific art lessons. I am excited to check out your package about specific elements!

i need pdf copy thanks

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This is so wonderful!

Great and easy to understand material! Thank you!

I can’t wait to get started on these lessons

I would like the lesson on line and pattern. Thanks

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This is amazing!

Such a helpful resource!

Looks like a great way to get started with our coop students!

Hello! I love this lesson and hope to teach it again this year. I recall there used to be a handout of the rooster and turtle for students to practice on, along with some examples of patterns but now I can’t find it anywhere…is it still available?

Go ahead and click on the download PDF image to receive your PDF 🙂

where is the link for how to teach line drawings

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Love it..thank you

I would like to download the PDFs for line and pattern. Thank you.

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Love your lesson, but I am not teaching right now so I can’t afford to join. I am collecting allthe free downloads to get ready to teach later.

Can’t wait to try this!

Would love this lesson for my first graders

Beautiful! May I have a copy?

Awesome, thanks!

So helpful!

Very good and very interesting. Definition of line easy for kids to understand

Hi! I love your teaching style.Thank you

Very helpful and straightforward.

Looks Great! Thank you.

look forward to the pdf

quisiera que también hubiera una version en español

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PDF please!

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Pattern I would love a copy please

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copy of lesson pls

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I’d love the PDF please, so many great ideas here.

Thank you for the resource

Just what we need thank you.

This looks great!!! Can’t wait to give it a try-

I just learn to teach art to my students, and this side help me so much! Thank you, i love to download the pdf!

Would love this pdf please

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Line pattern for kids

• all Drawing & Painting lessons
• all classes
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• art vocabulary

by JuliannaKunstler.com

mirror drawing

• blind drawing

Take these assignments seriously.

Practicing the line-drawing skills is very important for an artist.

More you practice - better you get.

Print this worksheet or draw your own.

Use a colored marker or a highlighter for this exercise.

When we talk about memories, we often mean memories of facts or events:

• When is your grandmother's birthday?
• What is that actor's the name?
• What is your friend’s phone number?
• What is the capital of France?

There is another kind of memory that is largely unconscious, but very important.

We learn and remember essential skills, such as walking, using chopsticks, or riding a bicycle.

The mirror-tracing activity is a visual and motor test that involves learning a new motor skill.

The task is:

Move a pencil to trace the given design while looking at your hand only as a reflection in a mirror.

Drawing is a learned skill that requires visual and proprioceptive feedback to control muscle movement.

By concentrated effort, can we overcome a reversed visual field and follow new rules?

Can we learn these new rules and improve with practice?

Once you are done - practice more:

Try writing your name in cursive, and then trace in while looking in a mirror...

drawing lines

Line drawing is a skill that can be developed with practice.

Line drawing is a primary skill for any drawing.

Each line has length, direction, start and end points, and other characteristics.

The common mistake in line drawing is "hairy" or "chicken-scratch" approach.

Learn to avoid it.

Ghost lines

Ghost lines (or air drawing) is a technique that will help you develop clean line drawing skill and get a feel of line's length and direction.

Holding your pencil over a paper, follow the direction of a line that you are attempting to draw. Do it a few times - back and forth. Then draw the actual line with the same hand motion.

Draw a few parallel lines. At this point your hand will "know" how to work the muscles for this particular line and you will notice that it gets easier to draw it.

Draw 2 sets of start and end points.

Carefully and slowly connect the first two with a straight line.

Before you draw the second line - practice the air drawing a few times. Then draw the line with one stroke.

Did you notice the difference?

The same air drawing technique can be used to complete shapes and find missing corners.

Do over each existing line with "Ghost" drawing until you get the feel of it.

Then move your hand and air-draw the missing line.

Then draw the actual lines.

Practice more shapes and lines.

Practice more line drawing.

Copy the lines from the left into the outlined area.

Try to keep proportions and directions.

Utilize air drawing technique.

First, look at the lines.

Divide them mentally into groups. What would be the logical way to group them?

Designate area for each group.

Mark start and end points.

Air draw each line before drawing. Get a feel for direction and length.

Draw the lines lightly.