Bring festive creativity and meaningful literacy integration to your classroom or homeschool with this Christmas Holly Art Lesson, a beautifully structured holiday art project designed for Grades 2–5. This resource blends a fully guided drawing tutorial, reading comprehension, writing prompts, reflection pages, elements and principles of art extensions, and a complete teacher-led lesson plan into one cohesive and joyful December activity.

Students will explore the history and symbolism of holly through the informational passage on “Holly as a Christmas Tradition” (p. 8) , dive into a magical winter reading with “The Holly That Glowed at Midnight” (pp. 14–15) , and follow a step-by-step holly drawing tutorial (p. 9) to create a vibrant mixed-media art piece. With a literacy-infused lesson structure, opinion writing, creative writing, art reflections, rubrics, KWL charts, mandalas, and shape/line explorations, this resource gives you a complete December unit in one place—low-prep, highly engaging, and perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers alike.

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This Christmas Holly Art Lesson includes everything needed for a full cross-curricular art experience:

🎨 ART LESSON MATERIALS

• Full Lesson Plan (pp. 5–7) including hooks, participation strategies, instructions & standards alignment
• Step-by-step Directed Drawing for Christmas Holly (p. 9)
• 16-step Photo Demonstration Tutorial (pp. 39–55)
• Example Artwork (p. 38)
• Bulletin Board Display Sign “Holly Christmas Artworks” (p. 11)

📘 LITERACY COMPONENTS

• Informational Text: Holly as a Christmas Tradition (p. 8)
• Fiction Story: The Holly That Glowed at Midnight (pp. 14–15)
• Reading Comprehension Questions + Answer Key (pp. 16–18)
• Sight Word Tracking List (p. 19)
• Tricky Word Bank (p. 20)

✏️ WRITING EXTENSIONS

• Opinion Writing: Is Holly the Best Decoration? (p. 21)
• Creative Writing: Winter Magic: A Holly Plant That Helps Someone (p. 23)

🧠 ART REFLECTIONS & THINKING

• Message & Meaning Reflection (p. 25)
• Top 3 Things I Love About My Art (p. 26)
• Compare & Contrast: Holly vs. Poinsettia (pp. 27–28)
• Emotions Reflection (p. 29)
• Medium, Process & Learning Reflection Pages (pp. 30–31)
• 3 Stars & A Wish (p. 32)
• Artist Statement Pages (p. 33)

🎨 ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF ART

• Mandala Design – Radial Symmetry (p. 34)
• Shapes & Forms Page (p. 35)
• Line Exploration Activity (p. 36)
• Christmas Holly Coloring Page (p. 37)
  
  
  

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES (Non-Editable)

• Complete guided art lesson plan
• Step-by-step drawing + photo demonstration
• Informational reading
• Fiction reading comprehension
• Reading response pages + answer key
• KWL chart
• Draw & Design art challenge
• Writing prompts (opinion + narrative)
• Elements of Art & Principles of Design extensions
• Art rubric
• Artist statements & reflections
• Coloring page
• Bulletin board label
• Student example artwork