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.
Build Animal Piggy Banks!
Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank - or you can use your imagination to create others.
Make Dried Apples
Drying apples is an age-old tradition and a way to harvest nature's bounty and save it up for winter. Here's an activity to help your child create this sweet snack.
Serve Scary Eyeballs!
Get into the spirit of Halloween with this recipe that has you creating these ghastly, scary eyeballs with some hard boiled eggs and olives.
Create Hamburger Cookies!
Let your child develop her fine motor skills in this cooking activity that has her creating hamburger cookies, a great snack for any party or BBQ.
Create a Kids' Cooking Apron!
Does your child show signs of being the next great chef? Here's an activity to encourage her culinary interest and skills: make a colorful cooking apron!
Make a Nest in a Basket Snack!
Running out of after-school snack ideas for your young one? Make a Nest in a Basket! Simply shape and bake shredded wheat and coconut into a basket, and fill it with some yogurt and grapes for a satisfying treat that's sure to please.
Create a Bread Sculpture
Nothing speaks better of a cozy home like the smell of baking bread. Here's an activity that will get your child to have some holiday fun while making something delicious to eat. Create bread dough sculptures!
Create Awesome Apple Note Cards!
Here's a fresh fall activity for your child: create awesome apple note-cards! Whether she's giving it out as a birthday greeting to a family member or taking her teacher an apple on the first day of school, this hand-made card will be sure to brighten someone's day.
Living Room Letter-Press
This activity combines learning about traditional printing techniques with a DIY guide for building a small tabletop press and creating linoleum cuts. Your teen will discover how a relatively simple construction project can be used to create gorgeous, unique art prints.
Make a Rice Paper Lantern
Lanterns have been used in Japan and China for hundreds of years. Many people hang lanterns outside their doorways for luck, or carry lanterns in festivals and parades to celebrate. Here's an activity that can let your child bring the warmth and light of these lanterns into your home.
