Donut Drawing

Donut drawing is a fun end of the year activity to add to your classroom. Drawing a donut can be used in a media art lesson, lesson on pop art, product design, art lesson or more. You can use my donut drawing templates to get students to draw and design donuts if they finish their work early or to decorate a donut that is themed around the holidays.


Donut drawing is a fun activity for middle school students! I don’t know about you but my students sure do have a sweet tooth! 

Donut Drawing

Here are some ways to use it in your classroom:

  • If students finish their work early

  • To design their own flavour and then write a paragraph about it

  • To design their own flavour and create an advertisement like a poster or commercial

  • To design their own donut themed around a prompt like the holidays or animals

  • To draw a donut with different materials like watercolour or pastels 

  • To draw a donut after interviewing a local bakery

  • To draw a donut after learning about the artist Andy Warhol and the pop art style

  • To draw a donut to celebrate a birthday in the classroom


And so much more! 

You can check out my donut drawing templates here! 



Another great end of the year activity is Drawing a Popsicle. Drawing a Popsicle includes templates to be used in the same way as Donut Drawing.

Students can decorate their own popsicles and then have a nice popsicle treat outside to celebrate the end of the school year! 


You can check out my popsicle drawing templates here!  


Donut Drawing and Popsicle Drawing is a great end of year activity for middle school.

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Colour Mixing Basics

  • To make a colour lighter (a tint) add white

  • To make a colour darker (a shade) add black

  • To make a colour dull - add it’s complementary colour

  • Experiment and test - try to make as many colour with your primary colours (red, yellow and blue) plus black and white

Learn how to mix green with acrylic paint and a colour chart

Learn How to Mix Green

This video is great for developing your skills. Mixing green is not as simple as mixing yellow and blue paint. If you are great at mixing greens and able to mix a variety of greens then you will be able to paint more realistic landscape paintings. Once you have mastered mixing greens - you will be able to paint better landscapes - click here to read more tips on painting landscapes!



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Video Length: 13 min. 20 sec.




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Mixing grey is not as simple as black + white. The more variety you have in your colours the more interesting your paintings will be! This video is a quick way to develop your colour mixing skills and make more professional looking paintings!

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Video Length: 8 min. 15 sec.

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Learn How to Make a Colour Wheel and Value Scale

If you haven’t painted before and don’t know much about mixing colours - I recommend watching this video. I explain the basics of colour theory. You will learn about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and how to mix them. You will also learn about making a tint or shade with a colour. This is a great educational video perfect for beginners, teachers, parents homeschooling and daycare providers. Colour mixing is the foundation of acrylic painting!

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Video Length: 25 min. 9 sec.

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