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Are you looking for art projects that go along with children’s books?

Here are 10 art projects that go along with children’s books!  I love to include children’s books in my art lessons.  It’s a great “hook” to capture their interest and also it provides a way for students to see beautiful illustrations and learn about concepts, cultures and other people.  

In this post, I share a few of my favorite children’s books that go along with art projects.  Amazon Affiliate links have been used at no extra cost to you.  The money earned goes towards maintaining this free website (and for buying art supplies!)

Collage of children's book covers including titles like "The Shape of My Heart" and "Elmer," with the text "Art Projects that go with Children's Books.

Henna Hands


Cover of "Nadia's Hands" by Karen English, illustrated by Jonathan Weiner, showcasing hands adorned with intricate henna art on a textured background. A wonderful addition to children's books that beautifully combines art and literacy.


Colorful handprints with intricate patterns and designs are set against a black background, resembling pages from imaginative children's books, with vibrant swirls and shapes.

Henna Hands: Taking inspiration from Mehndi, students create their own decorative hands picture. After drawing on white paper, they cut these out and glue to a piece of Scratch art paper, where they add more designs!  Unfortunately I cannot find the holographic glitter Scratch art sheets anymore, but you can use rainbow Scratch art sheets instead.

Snowglobes


A hand-drawn winter snow globe scene reminiscent of children's books features a snowman, Christmas tree, cat, and mouse under a starry sky and crescent moon. Bordered by colored pencils with a "Happy Holidays!" message, it's perfect for festive art projects.

Snowglobes: Using a circle tracer, students make their own snowglobe, with festive winter imagery inside.  For a printable snowglobe template, go here for additional resources.


The charming book cover of "The Snow Globe Family" by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by S.D. Schindler, beautifully captures a whimsical winter scene in a snow globe with a family enjoying the snow amidst trees—a delightful addition to any children's book collection.

It’s OK to Be Different

Colorful drawing of a pink cartoon character with large eyes, a blue crown, and purple hair, set against a rainbow circle background—ideal for children's books or inspiring art projects.


Colorful book cover featuring four cartoon faces and the title "It's Okay to Be Different" by Todd Parr, perfect for inspiring art projects and celebrating uniqueness in children's books.

It’s Okay to Be Different: Kids create unique faces on cardboard circles using India Ink daubers and oil pastels. 

Elmer the Elephant


Cover of the children's book "Elmer" by David McKee, featuring a colorful patchwork elephant on a similarly patterned background, perfect inspiration for art projects.

A colorful, patchwork paper elephant from a children's book is displayed against a light green background, next to a large purple shape resembling a tree—perfect inspiration for art projects.

This is the lovely book called Elmer, about an elephant who is different than the other elephants.  After reading the book, we make our own colorful patchwork elephants!

What Lives In Your Heart

These fun heart drawings include all kinds of things that the student loves!  Anything they love can go in their heart:  pizza, mom, hamsters, fish, flowers, friends, sports- the sky is the limit.  If you’d like the heart template, you can find it here.  I like to read the book The Shape of My Heart to go along with this project.


Colorful heart-shaped drawing with various objects like animals, flowers, and symbols. Text reads: "Here is what lives in my heart. Make a drawing of 'What Lives in My Heart!'.


Book cover titled "The Shape of My Heart" featuring two penguins holding heart-shaped balloons.

Owl Art Projects


Book cover showing an illustrated purple owl against a background of blue leaves. Title: "ABRACADABRA! THE MAGIC OF TRYING" by Maria Loretta Giraldo, illustrated by Nicoletta Bertelle.

Colorful drawing of an owl with a blue head and rainbow body sitting on a branch, under a crescent moon and stars.

The book Abracadabra! the Magic of Trying, is a wonderful SEL book about giving things your best try and not giving up.  After reading this book, we draw step-by-step owls and color with crayons.  Then, we use watercolor paints for the backgrounds.  We also make these fun clay owls as an introduction to using slabs and texture in our clay projects.

Monster Art Project

These are two of my favorite books about monsters.  The first is called Monsters Love School, which is great for the beginning of the year.  He also has one called Monsters Love Colors. Another book I really like is The Color Monster, which is another SEL book about feelings.  We used the drawing guides and description printables from the Expressive Monkey to make our texture rubbing monsters.  These are really easy to make.  You simply draw your monster, outline in Sharpie and then use crayon rubbings on the monster.  Place a textured rubbing plate under your paper and then rub on top with crayons!

Child's drawing of a smiling monster with large eyes, blue nose, and purple horns on a pink face. The background is purple.


Cover of the book "Monsters Love School" by Mike Austin, featuring colorful monsters and playful lettering on a lined background.


Cover of "The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings" by Anna Llenas, featuring a colorful monster and a black-and-white character holding hands.

Frogs in a Pond with Claude Monet

Here are those fun cardboard circles again!  We learned about Claude Monet and his lily pad paintings. We read this book called Philippe in Monet’s Garden.  To make this project, we painted with watercolor paints on the circles.  Then, cut out the construction paper lily pads and add colored tissue paper to the lily pads.  Some years I have just done this on regular paper.  I also did this when we had distance learning and the kids drew their frogs at home using this simple slideshow presentation.

A colorful circular artwork featuring a hand-drawn fish on a watercolor blue background, with paper lily pads and tissue paper flowers.


Cover of "Philippe in Monet's Garden" features a green frog surrounded by colorful flowers and butterflies.

Peace Art

There’s a lot of art you can do related to the theme of Peace.  The Peace Book is a great book to start an art project about peace.  Everything Todd Parr has done is wonderful, I’m a big fan.  In this peace blog post, I share a template you can use to start your peace art.  You could make posters, a peace quilt or peace styrofoam prints.


Cover of "The Peace Book" by Todd Parr, featuring a globe surrounded by diverse, colorful cartoon faces on a blue background.


Vincent: Starry Starry Night


Children's book cover titled "Vincent: Starry Starry Night" shows a boy sitting among flowers, holding a book.


I shared about this book, called Vincent: Starry Starry Night in a previous blog post, but it is just so good!  I received a review copy and shared many of the beautiful illustrations in the book.  There are many ways to do a Starry Night inspired picture.  I like to paint or color a swirly sky, add star stickers and then collage a city scene on top.

If you have read this far, thank you!  I have about 20 more children’s books to go along with art projects that I am planning on sharing in the near future.

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