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 Button Bracelet
Here's a counting game that puts old buttons to good use and produces unique jewelry that your child can wear or give as gifts to friends.
Make a Mouthwatering Mouse
Add a new mouse to the lineup of famous furry rodents: your child's own ice cream mouse creation. His star-quality mouse will be complete with cookie ears, sprinkle whiskers, and jelly bean nose and eyes.
Make Recycled Plastic Wallets
Plastic bags, which take up precious landfill space and litter city streets, can be reconfigured to create environmentally-friendly (and free!) wallets. Simply fuse them together with an iron and have your child paint her wallet as she sees fit!
Make Jumbo "Cupcake" Crayons
Finally there's a solution for all of those broken crayon stubs! This whimsical activity magically melts all the pieces together to create giant, multi-colored "cupcake" crayons.
Design a Native American Headpiece
Encourage your child to reveal her inner actor! She will delight in dressing up as a Native American this Thanksgiving with her very own extravagant looking headpiece made from everyday office supplies.
Bake Pan de Muerto!
Pan de Muerto is a kind of bread traditionally baked for the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Bake up a loaf of this delicious sweet and savory bread and explore the holiday tradition of another culture!
Trim the Tree with "Glass" Candy Ornaments
Using cookie cutters and a little help from an adult, youngsters can turn hard candies into colorful faux glass ornaments for the holidays. They will be fascinated as the hard candies melt when heated and harden again when cool.
Create a Thanksgiving Jigsaw Puzzle
There's nothing quite like the feeling of completing a puzzle, especially in front of a roaring fire on a cold autumn night. Encourage your little one to use her imagination to create one-of-a-kind Thanksgiving puzzle pieces!
Make a Thanksgiving Thank You Apron
Help your child give a heartfelt "thank you" to your family's chef this Thanksgiving with this "handy" painted apron.
Papier-Mâché Puppet Wizardry
Now your child can create his own wizard or witch puppet to send off on imagined adventures. This project blends many types of artistic elements, such as papier-mâché, painting, sewing, and designing.
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