Arts and Crafts Activities
Arts and Crafts to engage your child's creativity. From easy arts and crafts to more advanced, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to narrow your search by grade.
Create a Secret Storage Book!
What child doesn't love to have a secret hiding place? And what better hiding place than an old book? Here's a fun activity that has you and your child creating a book with a secret hollow!
The Science of Sun: Transference
This science-inspired activity encourages your child to get outdoors and explore the possibilities of the sun. You and your child will create unique photograph-style prints and learn how the sun's light can transfer images from objects to paper.
Decorate a Homework Clipboard!
This school year, try this fun activity watch your fourth grader do homework in style!
Make a Homework Caddy Kit
Help your child go back to school with a bang by making this personalized, organized homework kit. She'll have all the tools she needs to be successful in school right in one place and because she helped to make it, she'll be much more likely to use it!
Create a Homework Magnet Board
Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Create a homework magnet board, and get a tool that can help her and the whole family!
Map Your Middle School!
Here's a surprisingly simple back to school project that will bring big payoffs all year. Help your middle schooler make a practical "map" of her middle school day.
Create an Expressionism Plaque!
Learn about expressionism, an art form all about expressing yourself. Make your own masterpiece by sculpting dough and painting it so it represents an emotion!
More Than Cookies: 8 Easy Cookie-Cutter Crafts
Cookie cutters aren't just for gingerbread men anymore. You can use cookie cutters to make anything, from necklaces to fun food shapes to festive greeting cards. Here are 8 easy and creative ways to make use of your shapely cookie cutters!
Make a "First Day" Photo Book
Make a "First Day" Photo Book for your child's first day as a kindergartner. This is a great way to prepare her and get her excited about the academic adventures that lay ahead!
Craft A Home-Made Kaleidoscope
Here's an arts and crafts activity that'll teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science with this beautiful kaleidoscope made of household items!
