1st and 2nd Grade Painting & Drawing Educational Resources

Transform an old chair into a chalkboard canvas! This painting activity is a useful and creative way to add some quirky charm to your existing furniture.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Brighten up everyone's day with this circular rainbow plate perfect for celebrating spring or St. Patrick's Day.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.