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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 Family Memory Jigsaw Puzzle

Make a Family Memory Jigsaw Puzzle

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this wonderful and fun gift!

Make a Paper Mache Puppet

Make a Paper Mache Puppet

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores - out of paper mache! Imagine the hours of craft and puppet show entertainment, not to mention creative play essential to your child's development.

Make Your Own Pinata!

Make Your Own Pinata!

A longtime staple of birthday parties, the candy-filled pinata is a part of everyone's childhood. Now, your family can make its own pinata!

Popsicle Stick Bird House

Popsicle Stick Bird House

Help your nature enthusiast connect to her fine feathered friends right in your neighborhood by constructing a bird habitat and feeding station she can watch throughout the summer and fall.

Make a Tie Dye Surprise

Make a Tie Dye Surprise

In the spirit of recycling and reusing, as well as saving some money on buying new clothes, why not spend an afternoon outdoors creating some of your own designs by learning to tie dye? Here's how.

Practice Stick Writing!

Practice Stick Writing!

First graders will get a kick out of creating a written message and practicing their letters using sticks they find in nature. This also helps to practice their letter formation and handwriting strokes.

Get Your Head in the Clouds!

Get Your Head in the Clouds!

First graders are eager to learn about science - especially using large objects to observe like clouds. Let your child daydream a little and use those science and writing skills, too!

Ice Cube Bead Necklaces

Ice Cube Bead Necklaces

Create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off little fireballs of energy while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Drawing Shadow Art

Drawing Shadow Art

Here's an activity that will develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day!

Digital Algebra

Digital Algebra

Are kindergarteners really expected to do algebra? Believe it or not, they are! Before you start getting nervous, know this: kindergarten algebra is a lot different than what you did in high school. In the world of kindergarten, algebra means putting like things into groups, or noticing what ...

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