Art Level 3

Art Level 3 takes third graders on a full-year creative journey through the fruit of the Spirit, pairing rich art instruction with Scripture so students grow in both skill and faith. Each unit introduces a new fruit — from love and joy to gentleness and self-control — anchored in a specific passage from God’s Word. As the year unfolds, students don’t just learn to make art; they learn why making art matters.

This course assumes comfort with basic drawing, cutting, and following multi-step instructions, and builds on those skills with greater precision, independence, and creative decision-making. Techniques grow more sophisticated: students move from tracing and simple shapes into perspective, composition, and multimedia work. Projects require more steps and more judgment, helping students develop a real artistic voice as the year progresses.

Course Objectives: 

• Explore God’s creation and see it as His masterful work of art.
• Learn how to worship God with art by beginning with God’s Word.
• Learn about lines, shapes, colors, and more through fun activities.
• Develop hand and eye skills needed to gain independence in creating art.

Course Structure:

• Approximately 30 minutes per exercise, 2 days per week
• Students complete hands-on projects every three weeks to reinforce new skills

Art Instruction and Activities: 

• Lessons build on prior knowledge and introduce new vocabulary and techniques, including tints and shades, color theory and shadows, pointillism, optical illusions, perspective, composition, and the rule of thirds. Students move from recognizing these concepts to applying them in their own work.
• Skills progress in complexity across the year: students begin with color mixing and still life, then advance to three-dimensional forms, multimedia art, oil painting, and abstract composition.
• Worksheets build foundational knowledge; projects open the door to real creative expression. Together they give you the structure that makes teaching art at home feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
• Activities across the year include watercolor painting, oil pastel drawing, clay sculpting and weaving, pointillism, paper collage, multimedia painting, three-dimensional painting, abstract art, still life drawing, and perspective studies.

This curriculum builds your child’s faith by anchoring every unit in God’s Word. The nine fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 form the backbone of the course: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Three additional biblical virtues, truth, humility, and mercy, round out the year with the same Scripture-first approach.  Love comes alive through John 15:12–13. Joy is explored through Psalm 16:11. Peace is studied through John 14:27. Each theme connects to specific art skills, so students aren’t just memorizing a list; they’re living it out through what they create. By the end of the year, your child will have built a portfolio of work that reflects the character of God.