The uplifting Christian content, affordable price, and 36 well-planned lessons make these Artpacs the all-time favorite art course for grades 1st-8th. The program begins with simple coloring skills, cutting and pasting, elementary perspective drawing, and advances to grid drawing pictures, painting, and illustrating little story books; from freehand drawing, and three-dimensional shading to calligraphy and advanced shading techniques and perspective drawing; from crayons to soft lead color pencils and finally to pen and ink.

Artpac 1 (Grade 1) includes instruction in the following art skills:
• Coloring within lines, smooth complete coverage
• Coloring without voids, and directional lines
• Shading a picture to bring out depth and shapes
• How and where to use light or vivid coloring
• How to feather crayon with an eraser
• Introduction to working with grids
• Cutting on the line with a scissors and/or sharp knife
• How to glue without getting everything messy
• Three dimensional artwork
• Making greeting cards
• Quick sketches matched with poetry
• Facial features and where to put them
• Make paper snowflakes
• Tracing and adding detail to an outline
• Sillouettes
• Using a ruler for straight lines
• Drawing and sketching with ovals
• Simple facial features