2nd Grade Visual Arts Activities

No prep! This directed drawing pack guides students through an easy six-step process of creating five animal friends, and even a "create your own" page for students to design their own directed drawing activity to share with a friend or partner.

Directed drawing activities feature simple shapes and lines, and include clear, step-by-step numerical instructions for students to follow. You can also encourage students to add their own creative touches!

Directed Drawing Activities:

1. Elephants
2. Cats
3. Dogs
4. Frogs
5. Spiders
6. Create your own

Benefits of Directed Drawing

Fine Motor Skills: Directed drawing nurtures fine motor skills, essential for writing and other dexterous tasks. As students grasp and manipulate drawing tools, their hand-eye coordination and muscle control refine.
Creativity: Directed drawing sparks imagination and creativity. Students are encouraged to explore colors, shapes, and patterns - and to add their own unique touches to each creation!

Writing Foundations: Directed drawing lays the groundwork for writing and also improves handwriting skills. Students learn to follow visual instructions, recognize and manipulate shapes, and maintain consistent pencil strokes – all essential elements of handwriting!

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Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Dot marker printables | Halloween Q tip painting

Introduce fun and engaging Halloween Dot Marker printables to your classroom or home! This printable set is perfect for young learners to practice fine motor skills while enjoying festive Halloween-themed designs. Children can use dot markers, cotton swabs, or their favorite coloring tools to bring the spooky illustrations to life. Ideal for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary students, this resource encourages creativity and precision. With easy-to-use dot marker printables and fun Halloween Q tip dot painting, it’s a fantastic way to celebrate October while working on coordination and artistic expression. Perfect for classroom or at-home learning!

This resource includes:

40 printables, featuring 10 designs with 4 dot options for each.

1. Fall pumpkin
2. Halloween pumpkin
3. Black cat
4. Spider
5. Ghost
6. Skull
7. Candy
8. Candy corn
9. Potion
10. Spider web

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These heart projects are perfect for teaching a hands-on color theory lesson, a Valentine’s Day project, as part of a unit on shapes, or a non-traditional weaving project.  Do the projects as shown or use them to make cards or collaborative projects.  

Designed for 2nd-5th grade students, these projects are hands-on and highly engaging.  Some projects are suitable for younger students or special needs students. Ideas for adapting projects for students with special needs are included along with a heart drawing guide. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 14 pages. It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions and photos for 3 projects
• Suggestions for project variations for each project
• Cross-curricular and literacy connections
• Ideas for adapting projects for students with special needs
• Heart and Valentine’s Day facts
• Heart drawing guide
• National Core Arts Standards and TEKS (Texas) for 2nd-5th grades

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Saddle up for a Valentine's Day celebration with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack! This delightful pack features 8 pages of charming designs centered around classic cowboy elements such as boots, hats, and hearts, perfect for spreading love and cheer in the Wild West style.

Inside, you'll find intricately detailed illustrations of cowboy boots adorned with hearts, hats with romantic embellishments, and heart-shaped lassos to capture your creativity. Each page is designed with care to provide hours of relaxing and enjoyable coloring experience for both kids and adults alike.

Whether you're a seasoned cowpoke or a greenhorn in the coloring world, our

Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack offers something for everyone. Let your imagination roam free as you bring these Western-themed designs to life with your favorite colors and shades.

So round up your crayons, grab your spurs, and get ready to create some heartwarming masterpieces with our Howdy Valentine's Day Coloring Pack. It's sure to be a rootin' tootin' good time for all!

Includes a PDF pack of 8 pages. Some include sayings such as Happy Valentine's Day and Howdy Valentine. There are also options without words.

Unleash Kid's Inner Artist: Draw 15 Amazing Animals!

Join us on a fun adventure to create 15 incredible animals! This easy-to-follow guide uses simple shapes to break down each drawing into 7 manageable steps.

Here's what you'll get:

• Step-by-step instructions: We'll start with basic shapes and gradually add details, making drawing fun and achievable.
• 15 unique animals: Unleash kid's creativity with a variety of creatures, from cuddly cats to funny a happy rooster.
• Confidence boost: By the final step, kid'll be drawing and coloring the favorite animals independently, feeling proud of themself artistic skills!

Get ready to be surprised by what they can create!

This fabulous and engaging K-2 activity will gradually allow young learners to enjoy drawing and creating fantastic art pieces. Step-by-step instructions allow each student to create classroom materials drawings during whole group instruction or independent learning time. Students can then add vocabulary, sentences, or a short idea to describe their object. This fun and exciting activity grows as students grow throughout the year.

I create a practice art notebook for students where each piece gets glued into their book as they develop mastery. The added creative writing element means they learn to talk about art in a French too!

How to prepare this resource:

Make a copy of each page and distribute to students. You can arrange to have them all done in a booklet form or, as I do, I make copies at the beginning of the year and add pages to a ‘cahier d’art’ for students to work on at their own pace once we have done a few as a group.

Students love the independence of working on the art piece on their own and as language production develops, they even go back to their first drawings to add details and sentences to describe their work!

When to use this resource in the classroom:

These activities can be used from the first week of school. Following instructions, mastering step-by-step directions can start at any time during the school year. Students will love using these pages as their confidence grows as each step shows dotted line additions that add a version of what each step looks like.

As language develops during the year, students can add details, descriptions, or story starters to prompt creative writing.

I hope your students enjoy learning to draw these classroom materials!

Appropriate audience:

I use these posters in my French Immersion classroom with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. I feel confident that they could be used for any grade from K-6

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I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from Kindergarten to Grade Three will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Introducing "How To Draw Animals For Kids", an engaging and educational guide designed to unleash your child's inner artist. Perfect for young doodlers and aspiring artists, this book uses an innovative grid-based approach to simplify the process of drawing animals.

Key Features:

Over 50 Charming Animal Images: With a diverse selection of animals to draw, this book offers endless hours of enjoyment and learning.

Step-by-Step Grid Format: Each image is broken down into manageable shapes and lines, making it easy for children to replicate and build their confidence.

Skill Development: This technique not only boosts artistic self-assurance but also helps develop fine motor skills and spatial awareness.

Tips and Techniques: As children progress through the book, they’ll acquire valuable drawing tips and techniques, enhancing their artistic abilities.

"How To Draw Animals For Kids" ensures that every child will find a beloved creature to draw, making it an ideal companion for any budding artist. Whether your child is a beginner or looking to polish their skills, this book will inspire and guide them on their artistic journey.

Give the gift of creativity and watch your child experience the joy of drawing, one grid at a time!

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Are you looking for engaging March Spring Bulletin Board Craft Activities for your students? This Flower Craft is the perfect one for your students! This craft is great for spring or March bulletin boards.

Display the completed crafts proudly on bulletin boards, hallways, or doors—a showcase for the entire school community.

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Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with our vibrant coloring sheets! These printables solve the problem of engaging kids in learning about Latino culture and history through fun, educational activities. Perfect for classrooms and home, they highlight Latino leaders, traditions, and pride, making heritage education enjoyable and interactive.

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is an engaging and visually captivating design perfect for both children and adults who enjoy the art of coloring. This intricate design features a majestic lion rendered in intricate detail, poised amidst its natural habitat. Each section of the lion's mane, body, and background is marked with a number, corresponding to a specific color palette.

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Free Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Activity – Hand-Drawn and Engaging for Students!

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Fire Safety Interactive Book: A Hands-On Learning Adventure
Engage young learners with our interactive fire safety book! Students become the illustrators, drawing pictures based on prompts while learning vital fire safety concepts. This interactive approach fosters creativity, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of fire prevention and escape strategies. Perfect for educators and parents seeking a fun and effective way to teach fire safety to children.

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Students are given 10 elements to add to their work of art in order. Even though the requirements are the same each piece is unique! Since there is no "right way" to add some of the elements it is a confidence booster! Perfect for older kids to independently work on, or for younger students to follow along with the teacher. Also could be used for sub plan! Includes 3 different task card sets.

Celebrate Fire Safety Week with this fun Editable Firefighter Crown Hat Template! Kids can personalize their own firefighter hats by adding their names to this easy-to-edit PowerPoint file. Perfect for hands-on learning and creative play, this craft activity is a great way to engage students while teaching important fire safety lessons. Ideal for classroom activities, fire station visits, or community events.

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• This item comes as a high-resolution ( PPTX + PDF ) Celebrate Fire Safety Week with this fun Editable Firefighter Crown Hat Template! Kids can personalize their own firefighter hats by adding their names to this easy-to-edit PowerPoint file. Perfect for hands-on learning and creative play, this craft activity is a great way to engage students while teaching important fire safety lessons. Ideal for classroom activities, fire station visits, or community events.File that you can download straight after purchasing.

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Watch Along to go with Dr. Seuss's The Lorax

This activity is a watch along to go with the movie The Lorax. This product is focused on the events in the story. Students will take doodle notes of what they see/hear. Then describe their doodle notes, and finally sequence the events in the correct order.

Doodle Notes: This is a great way to allow students to visualize what they are watching/reading. Instead of writing what they see, students "doodle" what they are seeing/hearing. This is also a great accommodation for students who might need support with writing.

I have also included an event bank if students need some more support with sequencing the events.

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This spider web craft is perfect for students to do during any spider themed unit. They will first draw the lines of a spider web and then color each section their desired colors. Students may also draw patterns inside each section of the web to further individualize their webs. They will make a great wall display during Halloween or anytime spiders are being studies.

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Let's appreciate our teachers! These thank you activities and crafts are a great addition to your Teacher Appreciation Week at school! This printable resource is designed to engage students and give them the opportunity to give back to their teachers and school staff in simple, yet fun and creative way! You can use this resource in one art center in your classroom or as a whole class crafting time. There are 5 pop up card templates for students choose from with different animated drawing. Students get to recreate their favorite memories with their teachers using the diorama template. They can also write a letter to their teacher or even make a creative acrostic poem. All appreciation is possible with this resource!

Templates Included in the Resource:

• 5 different pop up 3D card templates

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• 2 diorama templates

• 1 colored acrostic poem template

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These creative Art name tags were designed to be printed, cut apart, and attached to your student’s amazing artworks. These name tags have a line designated for the student’s name, type of artwork it is, and grade level of the student. Using these name tags makes it easy for handing back artworks to students after the art is displayed in an art gallery, art museum, and/or art show. As an elementary art teacher, I enjoy different color name tags for different grade levels, so I have created 6 unique color palettes per grades K-5th grade. I hope this helps! Enjoy.

Need some fun activities for your library or classroom? Try these! Based on Leo Timmer's adorable new picture book "Bear's Lost Glasses" it includes activities and printables for story retelling, compare and contrast, fiction vs. nonfiction, and STEAM projects. This title is part of the Texas 2x2 list for 2025-2026.