Piet Mondrian: Free Art Lesson Plans and Resources for Homeschooling

Piet Mondrian, a twentieth century Dutch Artist, is the focus of this collection of free art lesson plans and resources. Several of these resources require only limited preparation, and items from around the house. Others may require a trip to the art store.

Alexander Calder Biographies for Kids
Hey Kids, Meet Piet Mondrian - "Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, in 1892. He was the second of his parent's children. At a very young age his father Pieter and his Uncle Fritz, both artists themselves, introduced Piet to the world of art..."

Piet Mondrian - "Piet Mondrian was a 20th century abstract painter whose most famous compositions are made up of black lines and colored rectangles. Mondrian's early works were naturalistic and impressionistic landscapes, but his discovery of cubism around 1910 put him on the path toward pure abstraction..."

Free Lesson Plans
Mondrian Style Painting - Students will create a painting in the style of Piet Mondrian. The activity will help them to appreciate the challenge of creating a balanced arrangement of colored squares and black bands as they work on their own masterpiece. Grade Level: 2-8

Piet Mondrian | Rectangles, Colors and Black Lines - Students will create a work in Mondrian's style with pieces of colored construction paper. As with the painting lesson, this activity will help them to appreciate the challenge of creating a balanced arrangement of colored squares and black bands as they work on their own masterpiece. Grade Level 2-8

Mondrian Cookies - Create an art masterpiece in you kitchen. Bake a batch of your favorite sugar cookies, and then turn them into a Mondrian masterpiece. Grade Level: 3-8

Art Masterpiece Coloring Page
Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow - Art masterpiece coloring pages provide children with an opportunity to interact with a piece of art in a very concentrated way. Not only do they look at the masterpiece, they become involved with it. This involvement with the artwork will, as a result, leave a much more lasting impression of the artwork, and possibly a greater appreciation for art in general. Grade Level: 2-6

Free Word Search Worksheet
Piet Mondrian Word Search - Review what your kids have learned with a free printable word search worksheet. This worksheet is designed to enhance your child's reading skills as well as drill facts about Piet Mondrian. Grade Level: 3-8

Piet Mondrian "Quotes"
"Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody."

"I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty with the utmost awareness. Nature (or, that which I see) inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation (still just an external foundation) of things."

More "Quotes"