Women's History Month provides an interesting and educational art project for children during March. Depending on the age of the child, provide read-aloud books, research materials or time for older students to complete research independently on the subject of famous women in history. Have children view official portraits of important historical figures to gain an understanding of the term portrait. Using paper and the child's choice of media, the child creates an official-looking portrait of a famous woman in history. Use brown construction paper cut into 1- to 2-inch strips and glue to create a frame around the portrait. Underneath the portrait, on the paper frame, children write the name of the person and a sentence about her place in history.
Dr. Seuss created whimsical characters for his rhyming stories. During March, the month of his birth, have students work together to create posters of character body parts. Provide a poster for hair, facial features, head shapes, body types, legs and arms. Have each child draw a body part on each poster. Once completed, the posters should be full of body part ideas. Children use the posters to create a whimsical, "Seuss-style" creature using a body part from each poster. Once the creature is complete, children can create a cartoon strip drawing featuring the creature.
People often say March comes "in like a lion, out like a lamb" to describe the weather. Have children create weather-themed paintings using crayons and watercolors. The technique is called watercolor resist. After a discussion of various types of weather, children create a picture featuring some type of storm using crayons. Instruct children to draw all elements of the picture except the sky and ground using a dark crayon line. Afterward, children paint over the entire picture using thinned watercolor in sky and ground colors. The wax of the crayon resists the watercolor and creates interesting effects.
Have children create a bright, spring-themed collage. The spring collage might also incorporate St. Patrick's Day or Easter. Provide each child with a large sheet of white, heavy drawing paper. Children also need small pieces of artist's bleeding tissue paper. Children cut or tear bright, colorful spring shapes such as flowers, bugs, rainbows, shamrocks or Easter-themed subjects from the tissue paper. Using a mixture of three parts glue to one part water, children paint a thin layer of glue on the white paper then lay the tissue paper shapes on it. After all shapes are in place, children paint a final, thin layer of the diluted glue over the entire collage to provide a uniform layer that adds protection and sheen to the project.