Educational crafts and art activities for teachers, home schooling and just for fun. Free video tutorials with printable worksheets. Educational games, free educational resources. Make your own puppets and stage a puppet theatre performance. Crafts for Easter, Mothers’ day, Father’s Day, Autumn, Halloween, Christmas, and much more!

Visual Arts in School

Animaplates are visual arts activities that teach a lot more than art. They are designed to be integrated with the curriculum and can help you find different ways to reach your students.

With Animaplates, you can integrate visual arts with Science, Drama, Language, Environment Studies and even Mathematics. Our Project Guides explain every project in detail, so that you can provide as much guidance to your students’ creativity as required for their age and maturity level.

Whether you feel comfortable or challenged teaching visual arts, Animaplates will help you save time and make your lessons more fun for you and for your students.

Creative Projects for Home Schooling

As a home schooling parent, you need all the help you can get. At Animaplates, we understand this.

Animaplates were created by Joelle Meijer. When Joelle was a teacher she constantly tried to find new ways to make learning more fun and effective. She found that many topics that seem difficult to teach can be made more accessible (and more fun!) when they are introduced by or combined with an arts activity.

Now you can benefit from 20 years of experience and get access to a wealth of educational resources.

Easy Crafts, Awesome Projects

Bring science lessons to life. Illustrate Bible stories. Make
lesson time something they’ll look forward to!

A free membership gives you access to over 150 free projects with step-by-step videos and printable instructions.

A basic membership gives you access to an additional 80 premium projects specifically designed to integrate with the rest of your curriculum.

For each premium Animaplates project you get:

• Detailed instructions.
• List of supplies you’ll need, so you can be prepared.
• Teaching Resources that help you relate the arts activity to other learning objectives.

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With a pro membership, you get even more resources for making your activities super interesting:

• Puppet Plays that your kids can perform with their Animaplates puppets
• Printable documents such as colouring pages and crossword puzzles
• more coming soon

Kindergarten

A basic membership gives you everything you need to organize original art activities that are easy and fun.

For each premium Animaplates project you get:

• Detailed instructions.
• List of supplies, to help you prepare for the activity.
• Teaching Resources that help you relate the arts activity to other learning objectives.

With the pro membership, you also get additional resources for making your activities even more interesting. Pro membership can be shared by a maximum of five teachers or educators in the same school.

Elementary School

For the elementary grades (and beyond) we recommend the pro membership. In addition to premium Animaplates project guides with detailed illustrated instructions and useful teaching resources, pro membership gives you access to lots of unique documents such as:

• Puppet Plays that the students can perform with their Animaplates puppets
• Printable documents such as colouring pages and crossword puzzles
• more coming soon

Pro membership can be shared by a maximum of five teachers in the same school.

For your Home Daycare

Animaplates crafts are fun and easy to make and require little preparation. The kids will be proud to take their craft home and impress their parents.

A basic membership gives you what you need to start making Animaplates right away. With the pro membership, you get many additional resources for making your activities even more interesting.

With your kids or grandkids

Never run out of ideas to keep your child busy. And if you’re a grandparent, your grandkids will love “doing art” with you.

A basic membership give you all you need for many afternoons (or mornings) of fun. For each premium Animaplates project you get:

• Detailed instructions.
• List of supplies you’ll need, so you can be prepared.
• Interesting facts about the animal or the object represented by the project.

For yourself

With a basic membership you can:

• Learn new painting techniques with our free how-to videos.
• Get ideas for beautiful projects you can make for yourself or as gifts.
• Print detailed instructions for premium Animaplates projects.