Learn with the Lyman Allyn Art Museum from your own home or school!
For Schools
Explore new lessons and activities designed to fit Connecticut social studies frameworks. They are perfect learning tools to try on your own, or in conjunction with a visit to the Museum.
- Social Studies, Grade 3- Investigating Art: New London through the Lens of a Painting
- Click here for the lesson plan
- Created by museum staff and published through TeachItCT, a Connecticut Humanities program
- Social Studies, Grade 5- New London’s Role in American Independence
- Click here for the lesson plan
- Created by Laura Krenicki of William J. Johnston Middle School, Colchester, using the museum collections and published through TeachItCT, a Connecticut Humanities program
- Social Studies, Grades 5 & 8- Paving the “Way”: Connecticut Women Artists in the Early Republic
- Click here for the lesson plan
- Created by museum staff and published through TeachItCT, a Connecticut Humanities program
Art Activities for Kids
Enjoy these art-making activities families can do at home! We’ve gathered some of our favorite family-friendly projects to keep the creativity going. Click on a specific project to be brought to the materials/instructions page.
Share your projects on our social media channels (Facebook | Instagram | Twitter) and use #LymanAllynFromHome.
- Accordion Peep Hole
- Assemblage Sculpture
- Bubble Printing
- Building Block Printing
- Cardboard Roll Sculptures
- Cardboard Tree House
- Cardboard Tube Skyline
- Cherry Blossom Painting
- Color Mixing Practice
- Complete the Image
- Dreamcatcher Drawing
- Egg Carton Dragonflies
- 3D Flower Collages
- Hot Air Balloon Button Collage
- Illuminated Mason Jars
- Landscape & Seascape Painting
- Many Colored Days
- Matisse Cut-outs
- Monochrome Art
- Nature Photography
- Newspaper Cat Collage
- Paper Roll Stamps
- Pointillism Painting
- Popsicle Stick Quilts
- Portrait Photography
- Recycled Bottle Planter
- Resistance Painting
- Rolled Paper Sculpture
- Shape Monsters
- Still life and Genre Drawing
- Tiffany Stained Glass
- Tissue Paper Prints
- Watercolor Painting
- Yayoi Kusama Inspired Sculptures
STEAM Experiments
Click on a specific project to download a printable handout.
- Camo Chameleons
- Color Changing Slime
- Colors on the Move
- Cubic Bubbles
- Fossilized Fun
- Galaxy Jar
- Layers of the Earth
- Magnet Painting
- Nature Mobiles
- Planet Suncatchers
- Rainbow Jar
- Rainbow Painting
- Rainbow Paper Towels
- Skewer Structures
- Static Butterfly
- Straw Rockets
- Sun Prints
- Weather Mobiles
Coloring Pages
Color your own version of objects from the Lyman Allyn’s collection with these coloring pages.
>>Download, print and color