Teach children about other cultures and traditions with an art activity. Primary school students can look at pictures of China and Chinese people celebrating in traditional clothing. Discuss with children how special celebrations take place in China just like in the United States. Children participate in these celebrations by making decorations such as paper lanterns. Children can look at examples of Chinese paper lanterns and then create their own using construction paper and scissors. By folding a piece of construction paper in half horizontally and cutting slits into the paper, children can then open the paper and bring the longest sides together and secure using tape or glue. The paper lantern can be hung by attaching a strip of cut construction paper to the top of the lantern.
Offer children learning activities with interesting worksheets. Print handouts from websites online that are created for primary school students. Make a worksheet for children to learn letters of the alphabet by picking one letter for the handout. Students can draw the letter as large as possible on the worksheet and then participate in a scavenger hunt within the classroom searching for items that start with that letter. When children find an object that correlates with the chosen letter, such as an apple for the letter A, they can practice writing the word on their own and drawing a picture of the object.
Teach children about colors by reading a book and then doing an art activity. Read "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni with primary school children then discuss how colors mix together to create another color. Children can look at a color wheel and figure out how the primary colors, red, yellow and blue create the secondary colors, purple, green and orange.
Provide children with sheets of paper along with a small amount of red, yellow and blue paints. Children can try to create a color wheel on their papers by mixing the paint colors together with fingers or brushes, depending on age level and type of paint.
After the paint dries, children can label the colors they created on their finished color wheel creations.
Primary school students can master their shape-making skills and think about how shapes fit together with an engaging art activity. Discuss with children all the geometric shapes they know and create a list on the front board along with drawn examples. Children can select a sheet of colorful construction paper and a single marker to use. To create a shape design, each child can select five shapes to use within their artwork, drawing one inside the other without allowing any edges of the shapes to touch. Once the outlines of the geometric shapes have been drawn, children can add a different pattern within each shape to create a finished design.