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Hallway Art Ideas for Every Season

Fall, Halloween, Holidays, Seasonal, Spring, Summer, Valentine's Day, Winter

Written by: Katie Palmer

Every year art projects fill the hallways of schools around the world. Sometimes it can be challenging to come up with just the right project. Well, never fear! Below is a treasure trove of seasonal hallway art ideas to spruce up your school this year!

hallway art ideas to spruce up classrooms and schools for every season

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Fall

Winter

Spring/ Summer

Any Time of the Year


Fall

1. Guess Who Self Portraits

This project is a great way for classmates (and the teacher) to get to know each other. Students will create a paper self portrait and fill in sentence blanks that describe themselves. The guessing game will be filled with giggles!

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2. Colorscape Portraits

What a fun twist on student self portraits! These coloring pages were created using the Colorscape app.

the colorscape app creates self portraits kids can color

Want a more traditional student drawn self portrait project? Check out this Self Portrait Guided Draw For Kids.

3. Back to School Bus

Get your students writing right away with the back to school bus craftivity.

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4. Bats & Spiders

how to make a bat and spider

What better way to get kids excited than by studying creepy crawlies?! The bat and spider art projects are from Lucky Little Learner’s Bats & Spiders Lapbook.

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3. Mummies & Monsters

mummies and monsters art project for elementary schools

“The mummy is just a person cutout covered in paper towels The Frankenstein is just construction paper.”-Tamera P.


Winter

1. Snowy Day Penguin

snowy day penguin craft for 2nd grade

For this project, students painted sunset stripes and then created their penguins and icebergs with construction paper. Finally, adding felt hats, mittens and scarves gave this project a collage look.

“I think this is my favorite project we’ve ever done! The kids got so creative and they all turned out adorable.”-Sarah G.

Check out this more in depth tutorial: Penguin Project.

2. Van Gogh Inspired Snowmen

van gogh instpired snowmen wall art display for the classroom

“This is a teacher led directed draw. They used markers to color the snowmen, crayons to draw swirls, and then watercolor for the background. I tell the kids they can be creative and do a pattern of their choice for the scarf. They come out really cute! “-Ashley L.

3. Lovey Dovey Gnomes

Valentines Lovey-Dovey Gnomes Craft

Have your students make these cute love gnomes to decorate the hallway near Valentine’s Day. It would also be a great project to review 2D shapes!


Spring & Summer

1. Rainy Day Umbrellas

“This project is a 3-step process.

  • First step: draw the umbrella (on water color paper if available). Use black sharpie to trace lines and crayons for resist art. Cut it out.
  • Second step:Cut a yellow ‘triangle’ with rounded corners from construction paper. Then, cut out two rectangles and a circle out of black construction paper. (Cut the circle in half…instant math talk!)
  • Third step: Background is wet on wet watercolor crayon resist. Took us a wile, but I would do it again!”-LaDonna P.
rainy day umbrella springtime craft idea

2. Earth Day Emojis

Here’s an circle-shaped book all about how to help the earth… With a creative emoji cover kids love to design!

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3. Cherry Blossoms

spring craft for 2nd grade hallway decor

“I’ve done this cherry blossom one. I cut strips of paper for the trunk and branches instead of painting them. Kids can tear the paper into different lengths and glue to make them.”-Nancy H.

4. Here Comes Summer!

A “sun-shiney memories” project that will brighten up the hallway!

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5. Birds Nest

A fun folding, cutting and gluing spring craft. Bonus, it is guided through a video!

springtime birds cutting craft idea with video tutorial

6. Peep Projects

Kids write about a “Sweet Adventure with my Peep” with this project! Perfect for practicing narrative writing in a fun way too!

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7. Bright Summer

“This is a summer writing/art piece. The kids drew what they were going/hoped to do this summer in their sunglasses. Then drew a self portrait. Last they wrote a paragraph about their summer vacation activities.”-Jardel S.

summer craft ideas for 2nd graders

Any Time of the Year

1. Directed Drawings

Read about them here: How to Use Directed Drawings in the Classroom

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2. States of Matter Root Beer Float

This states of matter float project is perfect for a science hallway display whenever you are teaching this science concept.

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3. Monthly Hallway Art Displays

Each month, our team be adding two hallway art display projects to All Access. Check back each month to see this growing resource and add some variety to your hallway!

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4. Art Hub for Kids

Head over to Art Hub for Kids for oodles of directed draw projects!

art hub for kids fun and interactive craft idea

Happy crafting!

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