Art Level 3 Masterbooks

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.

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.

A Course That Makes Teaching Art So Easy

Just two 30-minute lessons a week give your child a full year of meaningful art education. Every third week, students complete a hands-on project that pulls together the skills they've been building: sculpting with clay, weaving, oil painting, paper collage, three-dimensional painting, and more. The textbook includes supply lists, project resources, and an answer key, so everything you need is in one place before you open the book.

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.

The Fruit of the Spirit Through Art

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.

The Progression from Art Level 2 for Second Grade

Art Level 3 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.

Table of Contents

• Course Description
• Suggested Daily Schedule
• Lesson 1 Ephesians 5:8–10 Truth; Learning About White and Other Colors
• Lesson 2 Tracing Letters; Still Life
• Lesson 3 Wood Art; Sketching
• Lesson 4 John 15:12–13 Love; Learning About Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colors
• Lesson 5 Geometric Shapes
• Lesson 6 Warm and Cool Colors
• Lesson 7 Psalm 16:11 Joy; Tints and Shades of Color
• Lesson 8 Using White and Black to Mix Colors; Squishing Shapes to Make New Shapes
• Lesson 9 Painting and Layering with Different Size Paintbrushes
• Lesson 10 John 14:27 Peace; Different Lines to Make Art
• Lesson 11 Using Straight Lines to Make Art
• Lesson 12 Drawing the Heavens with Oil Pastels
• Lesson 13 James 1:19–20 Patience; Creating Movement with Art
• Lesson 14 Creating Bent Lines and Objects from Basic Shapes
• Lesson 15 Drawing Water with Watercolors
• Lesson 16 Ephesians 4:32; Luke 10:30–33 Kindness; Learning About Textures
• Lesson 17 Making Patterns with Textural Lines; Still Life Drawing
• Lesson 18 Pointillism
• Lesson 19 Galatians 6:9–10; Romans 12:20–21 Goodness; Three-Dimensional Forms
• Lesson 20 Working with Clay and Weaving
• Lesson 21 Sculpting
• Lesson 22 Lamentations 3:22–23; Matthew 25:21 Faithfulness; Two-Dimensional Shapes
• Lesson 23 Turning Two-Dimensional Shapes into Three-Dimensional Shapes
• Lesson 24 Color Theory; Shadows
• Lesson 25 Titus 3:1–2; James 3:13 Gentleness; Multimedia Art
• Lesson 26 Paper Collage; Textures in Multimedia Art
• Lesson 27 Oil Painting; Multimedia Painting
• Lesson 28 2 Timothy 1:7; Ephesians 4:22–24 Self-Control; Proportions
• Lesson 29 Three-Dimensional Painting
• Lesson 30 Abstract Art
• Lesson 31 Philippians 2:3–4; Proverbs 27:1–2 Humility; Perspective
• Lesson 32 Optical Illusions; Still Life
• Lesson 33 Perspective; “Step into Painting”
• Lesson 34 Ephesians 2:4–5; Psalm 23:6 Mercy; Composition and The Rule of Thirds
• Lesson 35 Composition; Still Life
• Lesson 36 Foreground, Midground, and Background
• Supplies and Project Resources
• Answer Key