1st Grade Painting & Drawing Educational Resources

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

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

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

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

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.

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

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

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!

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

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

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

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

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

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

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

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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!

In this easy and fun animal craft, make a cute pig nose using recycled egg cartons!

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Give your kid a go at making art like master painter Michelangelo did on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...by making her own colorful angel!