3rd and 4th Grade Painting & Drawing Educational Resources

Use a simple toothbrush and a splatter painting technique to create this sparkling skyline work of art!

Create your own version of an Aboriginal Australian dot painting in this fun activity!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

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

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

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

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!

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

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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

A woven heart makes a thoughtful and heartfelt gift for a special friend or family member on Valentine's Day. Make a woven heart with your young crafter.

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

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Your child will be delighted to create a sweet painting in the style of pop artist Wayne Thiebaud!

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

By selecting a pattern and carefully repeating it on the entire surface of a pumpkin, your child will transform a simple garden vegetable into a work of art.

Have a young architect or designer on your hands? Here's an easy activity for him to learn the basics of landscape and architecture while having fun!

Take some inspiration from the past and create some wood block prints with your fourth grader.