Art ideas for grade 1 and 2

Ah, sun and sea! What a wonderful combination for summer. Let your kids capture it with our sea sunset art lesson with warm and cool colors.

The August art session with my little "firsties" was a HUGE success. We created "Wild About 1st Grade" self-portraits. They turned out so dang cute! It was a lot of fun to combine some guided art along with "do your own thing" directions. The bulletin board is adorable. We'll be adding their writing prompt responses to "I'm WILD About 1st Grade Because..." as soon as we finish the edit process. I created a file with the guided art directions, supply list, and writing prompts. Feel free to…

Kids Art Projects - Watercolor Circle Art. The results are always eye catching no matter how kids chose to paint it!

Another good week in our classroom. We had Open House so a lots of projects were going on. We drew Easter bunnies and introduced addition with regrouping. My students understood the regrouping concept very fast so I moved on with the practice. We used these colorful rainbows to review at the end of the week... Read More

To study shapes and lines, Kindergarten students experimented with cutting out different colored shapes, and used brightly colored markers to trace around them. Students cut out squares, triangles...

A play based learning blog full of activities and ideas for kids

This adorable scribble art project is a perfect way to ease into the year and practice early skills while creating fun, bright works of art.

Open House ideas. Great activity for students to do to show during Open house.

The kids will have so much fun decorating and making their very own paper bag kites - just in time for spring!

Learn how to make suncatchers with this fun, fine motor raindrop art activity that has preschoolers peel and sharpen crayons to create raindrop shapes.

Spring is finally here! I love finding ways to integrate art into content areas such as language arts and math. I cannot think of a better project to welcome spring than by creating echo art flowers through a directed drawing exercise. After completing our flowers, we measured with paperclips since we are working on measurement this week. Each student added a sentence under their artwork that stated how many paperclips tall their flowers were. These flowers definitely make an awesome…

Natalie Hebert on Instagram: "Second grade deep sea submarines! Inspired by @mizzzlee_art 🪼"

Easter is quickly approaching! I have rounded up all of our free Easter Printable Games and Activities on one page. Word searches...

2nd Grade Art Lessons – Art with Mrs Filmore