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!

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Fall

Winter

Spring/ Summer

Any Time of the Year

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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!

2. Colorscape Portraits

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

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.

4. Place Value Express Train

Roll into the new school year with an art and math collaborative project.

5. Apple A “Core” Dion

Combine adjectives, tally marks and art in this back to school display.

6. Bats & Spiders

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.

7. Mummies & Monsters

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

8. Poetry Cafe

Let your students become poets with this adorable coffee cup template and surprise poem pull out.

9. Frightening Fact Families Haunted House

Practice math facts with a fun, spooky twist.

10. Veteran's Day Poster

A collaborative project, this poster not only honors those who have served our country, but focuses on teamwork. Each student colors a section, and after assembled, the project makes a perfect Veteran's Day display!

11. Scrapbook Paper Turkey

Create a colorful display with this adorable turkey craftivity.

Winter

1. Trimming Trees with Symmetry

Mix trimming the tree with symmetry in this oh so cute craft. Bonus: there are several variations of this activity included!

2. Grateful Gifting- Writing Holiday Craft

Tap into student gratefulness with this art & writing activity.

3. Snowy Day Penguin

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.

4. Van Gogh Inspired Snowmen

“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.

5. Snowman Sizing

Practice measurement while creating an oh so cute snowman with this wintery project.

6. Timeline- A look at my Life

Let students have fun practicing chronological order by creating a timeline of the life story of someone famous or creating a timeline of their own adventures!

7. Lovey Dovey Gnomes

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!

8. Shape Love Bug

Students will adore creating their love bugs, while practicing geometry!

9. Black History Month Collaborative Poster

Let students build teamwork skills while kicking off their study of these amazing American heroes.

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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.

2. Grammar Garden

Let spring burst into your classroom with this garden themed art project that ties in grammar practice.

3. Shamrock Directed Draw & Write

Students will love coloring in the shamrock leaves with the given designs, or designs of their choice! Plus, your students can never get enough writing practice!

4. 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!

5. Cherry Blossoms

“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.

6. Here Comes Summer!

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

7. Birds Nest

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

8. Peep Projects

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

9. 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.

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Any Time of the Year

1. Directed Drawings

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

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.

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!

4. Art Hub for Kids

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

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Happy crafting!