4th Grade Graffiti Name Art Grade 4 Art Project Back to School Art Lesson
Looking for a 4th Grade graffiti art lesson that teaches creative lettering, line, color, shape, value, composition, and design through a name art project students will actually be excited to make? This 4th Grade Graffiti Name Art Project gives students a creative introduction to graffiti-inspired lettering, name art, bold typography, color, line, shape, value, pattern, composition, and personal style. Students transform their own name into a bold graffiti-style artwork using exaggerated letters, thick outlines, highlights, shadows, overlapping shapes, bright colors, and expressive details.
Instead of simply writing their name in bubble letters, students learn how artists can stretch, tilt, overlap, connect, reshape, outline, highlight, and shade letters so the name becomes the artwork itself. They then add a brick or stone background to create a finished graffiti name art project that is colorful, dramatic, and seriously fun to display.
This Grade 4 art lesson is especially fun for Back to School, Meet the Teacher, Open House, name art units, graffiti art lessons, lettering projects, classroom community building, elementary art, and homeschool art. Every student begins with the same basic concept — their name — but the finished artworks can look completely different depending on the lettering, colors, shapes, shadows, highlights, and design choices they make.
Because fourth graders putting their own name in giant graffiti letters? You probably won't have to convince them to make this one.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES (Non-Editable PDF & PPT)
- Grade 4 Graffiti Name Art lesson plan
- Suggested visual art standards
- Teacher preparation and instruction guide
- Critical-thinking questions
- Graffiti Name Art anchor chart
- Graffiti Name Art practice handout
- Graffiti Alphabet reference page
- Brick background template
- Stone background template
- Graffiti Name Artwork page
- History of Graffiti student reading page
- Visual step-by-step project tutorial
- Fast-finisher graffiti coloring activity
- Detailed art rubric
- Bulletin-board display sign
- Draw and Design graffiti activity
- KWL chart about graffiti
- Read & Respond passage about the history of graffiti
- Reading-comprehension questions
- Read & Respond answer key
- Explore Line activity
- Gray Scale Exploration activity
- Line Zen Doodle activity
- Shapes and Forms activity
- Graffiti-inspired Mandala Design activity
- Emphasis activity
- Graffiti Art creative writing activity
- Graffiti artwork “comes alive” writing activity
- Community mural writing activity
- Joy, Peace & Love graffiti story prompt
- The Message artwork reflection
- Elements & Principles artwork analysis
- Graffiti Art vs. Traditional Painting Compare & Contrast activity
- Compare & Contrast answer key
- Goal-setting page
- Look at Mediums reflection
- Artwork reflection pages
- Peer Feedback activity
- 3 Stars & a Wish reflection
- Artist statement pages
- Finished artwork example
- Projectable concept and visual teaching pages
- Projectable step-by-step PDF & Powerpoint tutorial pages
- BONUS link to video demonstration
The lesson also includes opportunities for reading comprehension, writing, reflection, art analysis, goal setting, and artist statements, making it easy to extend the project into a larger interdisciplinary art unit.
