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.
Make a Decorative Paperweight!
Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!
Color Science for Kinders!
Help your child explore chromatography (the process of separating colors or pigments) while creating a neat art project! Here's how to get started.
Make a Labor Day Career Book!
Celebrate Labor Day and give your child a jump start on the school year by taking a walk through your neighborhood and talking about the different jobs that people do, then showing him how to make his very own "career book."
Design a Diorama!
Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by designing and detailing a diorama. Your child will be practicing two and three dimensional thinking, plus the essential language arts skill of constructing a narrative!
Produce a Vegetable Puppet Play!
Want a creative way to get your kids to eat more vegetables? This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about the health benefits of eating vegetables while creating an fun veggie puppet play about nutrition!
Make Homemade Glue!
Have you ever run out of glue right when you need it? Let your third grader come to the rescue! This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.
Make a Milk Box Derby!
Young children are great at finding their own ways to "recycle" by using their imagination to turn household objects into toys. Put those budding artists to work by having them create their own toy cars with used milk cartons and then having a Milk Box Derby!
Create a Cozy Poncho!
Whether your child is making a cool poncho for himself or designing one to give to another as a gift, this is a great activity for the development of fine motor skills and patterning.
Create a Recyclable Creature
Want a fun activity to do with your child that uses recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skill practice? Have your child build his very own recycled creature!
Make a Self Portrait from Nature
Kids of all ages enjoy creating self-portraits. Add a fun and unique twist by having your child use nature as her palette!
