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Art Warm-up Activities [FREE Printables]

By Jenn (aka Mama Jenn) • Last Updated: February 23, 2025

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Add these FREE printable ART Warm-up Activities to your art lessons! Practice duplication, matching, & mirror imaging drawing skills!

I used Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes for my daughter’s first grade art lessons. The book suggests doing some specific art warm-up activities which allow for drawing skills practice in duplication, matching, and mirror imaging.

Art Warm-up Activities

In order to make the activity a bit easier on myself, I created a printable version of the warm-ups and laminated them for re-use. And it’s a good thing I did! My daughter LOVED doing the art warm-up activities! I would have wasted so much paper had it not been for the laminated printables!

Helpful Hint #1: Don’t have a laminator? Slide the printables into page protectors.

Helpful Hint #2: I drew my images with a wet erase marker. However, my daughter completed the activities with a dry erase marker. This allowed her to erase her work without erasing mine.

There are three art activities in the printable file:

  • Duplication Warm-up Activity
  • Matching Warm-up Activity
  • Mirror Imaging Warm-up Activity

Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes:

The art book we used for our first grade art lessons is below. This is where I learned about the art warm-up activities and was inspired to create the printables.

Drawing with Children
Drawing with Children

How to use the Duplication Warm-up:

Draw something different in the first box of each row. The child duplicates your drawing in the other three boxes.

Basically, the adult draws four different images in the boxes to the left of the dark, vertical line. The child has three attempts to copy the drawing in the three boxes to the right of each drawing.

FREE Printable Duplication Art Warm-up Activity

How to use the Matching Warm-up:

For each row, draw the same thing in all the boxes with just a slight difference. However, the very first box in the row and one of the other boxes need to be exactly the same. The child then circles the drawing which is the exact same as the first one.

FREE Printable Matching Art Warm-up Activity

How to use the Mirror Imaging Warm-up:

There are six boxes with a dotted line down the middle of each of them. Draw something on one side of each of the dotted lines. Then, the child draws the mirror image on the other side.

FREE Printable Mirror Imaging Art Warm-up Activity

This was by far my daughter’s favorite warm-up activity! She asked to do it over and over again! Check out the mirror imaging warm-up activity in action below. My drawings are in blue and hers are in red.

Mirror Imaging Art Warm-up Activity

Art Activities for ALL Ages:

Since you are doing the drawing for the child to duplicate, mirror, and/or match, you can determine how challenging it is for the child! Therefore, you can use the art warm-up activities for any grade level art lesson!

FREE Printable Art Warm-up Activities

Now that I’ve used these printables with all five of my children as part of our first-grade art lessons, I know they are a hit. I’m glad the book Drawing with Children was part of the My Father’s World First Grade homeschool curriculum. Want to add the art warm-up activities to your lesson plans?

My Father’s World [FREE] Printables:

Search below by grade level / cycle:

Kindergarten | First Grade | Adventures in U.S. History | Exploring Countries & Cultures | Creation to the Greeks | Rome to the Reformation | Exploration to 1850 | 1850 to Modern Times




Download Instructions:

Ready to download the FREE Art Warm-up Activities? Click the button below to get access to the printable pdf file.

Click here to download!



This post was originally published on September 27, 2010.

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  1. day

    September 18, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    Nothing is downloading for me. I’ve tried several times and nothing downloads through the link

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    • Mama Jenn

      September 18, 2022 at 10:47 pm

      Hi there! Thank you SO MUCH for letting me know! The problem has been fixed! Please let me know if you continue to have any issues downloading the file.

      Reply
  2. Leanne Uttech

    July 10, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    Your link to the downloads is not working!

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    • Mama Jenn

      July 12, 2022 at 9:41 pm

      Hi Leanne, thanks for letting me know! I have updated the post and the download link should be working now.

      Reply
  3. Saph@frugalwifeblog

    March 17, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    Thank you so much for the printables! And what a great idea to put them in a page protector to make them reusable! Definitely helps to save on ink and paper!

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    • Mama Jenn

      March 20, 2015 at 3:47 am

      You are very welcome!

      Reply
  4. Saph@frugalwifeblog

    March 17, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    Thank you so much for the printables! And what a great idea to put them in a page protector to make them reusable! Definitely helps to save on ink and paper!

    Reply
  5. Jennifer Williams

    August 2, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    Hi Jenn, Thanks for this. I have this book and plan to start with it with my eldest daughter when I have finished my Montessori course in February. I have bookmarked your helpful pages to come back to then! Best Wishes, Jenni

    P.S I finished my September mission a coupla days late so will link to it tomnorrow!

    Reply
  6. Jennifer Williams

    October 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Hi Jenn, Thanks for this. I have this book and plan to start with it with my eldest daughter when I have finished my Montessori course in February. I have bookmarked your helpful pages to come back to then! Best Wishes, Jenni

    P.S I finished my September mission a coupla days late so will link to it tomnorrow!

    Reply
  7. Giggly Girls

    September 30, 2010 at 11:33 am

    Very Cool!

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  8. Monica

    September 28, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Great idea – thanks for sharing!
    Monica

    Reply
  9. Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog

    September 28, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    Great ideas!! You rock! 🙂

    Reply
  10. LissaRenfro

    September 28, 2010 at 5:15 am

    Yay! Yay! Yay! Thank you for doing this. I have wanted to get started on this book, but have only done the intro lessons with my kids. This is the push I needed to work on some of those activities.

    Reply

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