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 your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.

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

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!

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

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

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

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

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

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

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

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

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

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.