Helping Art Teachers Thrive in the Art Room
The Sparklers’ Club gives you standards aligned, proven art lessons, done-for-you curriculums and all the resources you need to create an inspired art program.
Helping Art Teachers Thrive in the Art Room
The Sparklers’ Club gives you standards aligned, proven art lessons, done-for-you curriculums and all the resources you need to create an inspired art program.
Who we are
Welcome to the home of The Sparklers’ Club, one of the largest membership platforms and global communities of art teachers teaching art to children.
We are a team of artists and teachers who are passionate about providing a quality art education experience for our young artists. We know how hard it is to juggle lesson development, curriculum planning and classroom management while curating an inspiring and engaging art program.
We give you tools and instruction to teach like a pro and help your students create with confidence.
Who We Are
Welcome to the home of The Sparklers’ Club, one of the largest membership platforms and global communities of art teachers teaching art to children.
We are a team of artists and teachers who are passionate about providing a quality art education experience for our young artists. We know how hard it is to juggle lesson development, curriculum planning and classroom management while curating an inspiring and engaging art program.
We give you tools and instruction to teach like a pro and help your students create with confidence.
Check out what we just dropped this month!
At the Table Bundle
Feast your eyes on all of the goodness in the At the Table Bundle. In this bundle, students use art-making to create connections, explore different cultures and celebrate comforting cuisine and culinary traditions, including some of their own. Your youngest students will focus on elements like line, texture and shape with engaging lessons that use a variety of materials like the Line Burger, Tea and Cookie Texture Collage and My Lunchbox. Older students have the opportunity to connect art with fantastic literary tie-ins and expand their scope to full-scale still lifes that feature subject matter such as a pot of stew or a quirky loaf of bread in the Soup to Share and Hooray for Bread!
Updated Release: Paul Cézanne Bundle
Introduce your students to the art of Paul Cézanne with this freshly UPDATED bundle that’s packed full of fruit, flowers and more. In lessons that have been inspired by Cézanne ’s still lifes, landscapes and portraits, students will explore a variety of painting techniques and practice using value to create the illusion of form. Still lifes featuring 3D components made from Model Magic are also included to emphasize actual form. This bundle includes a brand new first-grade lesson that has students printing cherries instead of painting them and a seventh-grade lesson that uses less-conventional painting methods, like scraping, stamping and dabbing, to create a seasonal landscape.
Save the date! Enrollment is coming August 1-8, 2024
Never wonder what to teach next again!
BONUS Curriculum for Annual Members → Elements of Art and Principles of Design Integration Curriculum.
If you’ve ever struggles to map your lessons to standards and plan your year in advance, EPIC is about to become your new best friends!
EPIC is a 12-Bundle curriculum for K-7 that combines the elements of art and principles of design into a fully sequenced and done-for-you art program.
Designed with skill-building art projects in mind, our EPIC framework takes each grade level through the elements of art and principles of design with engaging activities, resources and lessons that children love.
Our Curriculums
Any teacher who has put together their own curriculum knows how tedious and challenging it can be.
And if you’ve ever struggled to map your lessons to standards and plan your year in advance, our done-for-you art curriculums are about to become your new best friend!
Our Set-Up for Success Art Curriculums offer a clear path of skill-building lessons, admin-pleasing standards and everything you need to teach art effortlessly and with unbounded creativity.
Our Lessons
Our lesson plans are designed to help any art teacher, regardless of experience, step into their art room with confidence and a plan. Our members love that they can use the time allocated for lesson planning to connect and develop relationships with their students.
Lesson plans are grouped together into themed art bundles that contain standards-rich, fully illustrated step-by-step lesson plans, drawing handouts, reference sheets, introductory slide decks, teaching resources and in many cases, video-based instruction.
Our Support System
When you become a Sparkler, you’re not just getting access to time (and sanity!) saving resources, plans and curriculums, you’re joining a powerful and supportive community of like-minded peers (and you’ll never feel lonely again).
District Purchases
Staff Passes allow for schools or district administrators to purchase annual licenses for multiple teachers at once.
Need help advocating for your membership with your school or district? A Letter of Support can help you request funding from your administrator pay for your membership CLICK HERE to download a letter of support you can present to your district.
About Patty
I’m Patty Palmer, founder of Deep Space Sparkle and The Sparklers’ Club.
When I opened the club for the very first time in 2016, my goal was simple:
To support art teachers with vibrant, rigorous art lessons — so they could stop worrying about planning and bring more creative energy to the classroom.
Since then, The Sparklers’ Club has not only become the go-to source for reputable teaching materials but a gathering place for like-minded, kind, supportive art teachers.
We understand that art teachers need more than a library of lesson plans …
Teaching art comes with incredible rewards and many challenges that few understand. And to thrive in 2024 and beyond… you need a support system that gets it.
So say YES to help where you need it — and let’s share the load together. I can’t wait to help you shine in the art room this year…