About Art Teacher Tools
“The best art lesson is the one where students forget that they are learning.”
ArtTeacherTools.com
Art Teacher Tools exists because the tools art teachers actually need are surprisingly hard to find.
We’re visual arts educators who got tired of piecing together workarounds and decided to build something better.
Every tool on this site started the same way — we needed it for the classroom, couldn’t find it anywhere, and built it ourselves. Then we figured other art teachers were probably running into the same problems.
So we made our first tools absolutely free.
Why We Built This
Teaching art is already a full-time job. Hunting down usable reference images, building grid overlays, managing classroom drawing exercises — none of that should eat up your planning time.
Art Teacher Tools was built to handle the busywork so you can focus on actually teaching. Everything here is classroom-tested. If it’s on this site, it’s because we’ve used it with real students and it worked.
What You’ll Find Here
Art Teacher Tools offers free and premium resources designed to make your classroom life easier:
Free Drawing & Design Tools
Grid generators, color palette pickers, light simulators, drawing practice tools, and classroom games like Scribble Rush! — ready to use right now, no account required.
Lesson Plans & Curriculums
(coming soon)
Ready-to-teach visual art lessons and units built by working art teachers. These lessons meet national visual arts standards and are classroom tested.
Professional Development
(coming soon)
Online courses for art teachers who want to expand their skills or pick up new classroom techniques.
Built and tested by art teachers, for art teachers.
No ads. Ever.
Student tools and student-oriented pages do not contain ads, nor does the tools track our users. This ensures that unwanted content introduced through unmonitored ads is not an issue.
No account needed.
A sign-in is not needed to use the free art teacher tools on our site. All free tools load client-side so there is no requirement to log in to use our publicly available free art tools.
School-appropriate content.
All content on is this site is school-appropriate and classroom-safe. Reference images are carefully curated to avoid nudity and other unsafe content.
Ready to Explore?
“Great classroom tools shouldn’t be hard to find. Every teacher deserves resources that actually work .”
ArtTeacherTools.com
Art Teacher Tools is free to use – browse the tools and start using them in your classroom today, no sign-up required. When you’re ready for more, create a teacher account to access additional resources.
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