3 FREE Line and Shape Art Lessons to Try in Your Classroom
Would you like to try a ready-to-teach Art lesson without spending hours planning and preparing? Download 3 FREE line and shape art lessons for Foundation, Year 4 and Year 9, with teacher guidance and curriculum connections.
Whether you’re teaching Foundation, primary or secondary Art, these short mini-lessons offer practical ways to develop drawing skills, introduce artists and encourage creativity. Each lesson takes approximately 20–30 minutes and includes clear visual instructions to help you get started.
Three Different Lessons. Three Different Year Levels.
I’ve put together three FREE Line and Shape art lessons from Love To Teach Art, giving you a little taste of how the lessons work in real classrooms.
Foundation: The Three Bears
Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, this playful lesson begins with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students explore big, medium and small circles, tracing and arranging them to create their own teddy bear drawings. It’s a gentle introduction to line, shape, size and pencil control, with plenty of room for individual expression. Explore how Wassily Kandinsky used colour and repeated circles in his artwork Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles (1913).
Year 4: Rex Ray’s Invisible Map
Students begin with a circle and a simple folded grid, then explore how flowing organic shapes can fit together within a composition. Inspired by artist Rex Ray, this lesson encourages students to experiment with shape, placement, balance and colour while developing their own designs. Discover more of Rex Ray’s colourful collages and see how he combined flowing organic shapes to create playful compositions.
Year 9: Neon Glow Miró-Style Eyes
Inspired by Joan Miró, students explore unusual eye shapes, expressive lines and imaginative colour combinations. Using Procreate on an iPad, they experiment with digital effects to create glowing eyes against dark backgrounds. It’s an engaging way to introduce digital art-making while strengthening students’ understanding of line, shape and composition. Explore Joan Miró’s The Gold of the Azure (1967) to see how expressive lines, imaginative shapes and bold colours come together in his artwork.
What’s Included in Your FREE Sampler?
You’ll receive ready-to-teach lesson slides with visual instructions, examples and artwork links, a Teacher Guide with preparation notes and Australian Curriculum v9 planning references, and a printable A2 Whisper Lines poster to encourage gentle pencil pressure when drawing.
The Foundation and Year 4 lessons require simple classroom drawing materials. For Year 9, you’ll need an iPad with Procreate. Internet access is needed to watch the linked Foundation story video on YouTube. Everything comes together in one downloadable ZIP file, ready for you to explore.
A Little Taste of Love To Teach Art
These three mini-lessons are examples from a much larger connected teaching pathway. Love To Teach Art’s Line and Shape series includes eleven individual ten-week units, from Foundation to Year 10. Each year-level unit combines short weekly Core Skills lessons with artist learning, hands-on and digital Studio Work, quizzes and reflection.
The idea is simple: Teach the concept. Keep your creativity. The planning and lesson sequence are already prepared, but you still have the freedom to adapt the teaching, materials and activities to suit your students. You can begin with just one year level, or explore how the learning develops across several year levels.
Ready to Try Your FREE Line and Shape Art Lessons?
Choose the lesson that suits your students, gather a few materials and enjoy making art together!
Download the 3 FREE Line and Shape Art Lessons Sampler.
Curious about the complete units?
Explore the full Foundation to Year 10 Line and Shape pathway to see how the lessons connect.
