Series

Art Ninja

40 episodes

Art Ninja is CBBC's make-along art show, where each short clip walks kids through one hands-on project: a drawing technique, a recycled craft, or a simple animation trick. Presenter Ricky Martin builds shiny foil pictures, cotton-bud pointillism, flip books, cardboard masks, and spinning zoetropes from everyday materials, then invites viewers to try it themselves. Teachers reach for it to fill a visual-art block with a clear, watch-and-do demonstration that needs almost no special supplies. The clips span drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and animation, and suit grades K through 6.

what this series covers

What Art Ninja covers

40 episodes in the library, tagged for K–6th. Heaviest coverage: Art. Between them they line up with 13 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

K: 1
1st: 7
2nd: 21
3rd: 37
4th: 35
5th: 20
6th: 3

Episodes per subject

Art: 40

National Core Arts 13

VA:Cr2.1.3Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
VA:Cr2.1.4Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.
VA:Cr1.2.3Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
VA:Cr1.2.4Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.
VA:Cr2.1.2Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
VA:Cr2.3.3Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

+ 7 more

VA:Cr3.1.3Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
VA:Cr2.3.2Repurpose objects to make something new.
VA:Cn11.1.3Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.
VA:Cr2.1.5Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.
VA:Cn11.1.5Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.
VA:Cr2.1.1Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
VA:Pr4.1.4Analyze how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.