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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 Thanksgiving Thank You Apron

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.

Make a Mashed Potato Snowman

Make a Mashed Potato Snowman

To offset the sugary indulgences of the holidays, create this frosty and edible friend. Your child will have so much fun building and eating his snowman, he won't even realize he's getting his vegetables!

Make Recycled Plastic Wallets

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!

Craft a Cereal Abacus

Craft a Cereal Abacus

Your child probably tires of the monotony of flash cards and workbooks quickly, but she'll be fooled by this colorful, interactive counting box! Use O-shaped cereal for counters and she'll practice her counting without even realizing.

Travel the World with a Postcard Collection Map

Travel the World with a Postcard Collection Map

Spark your childâs curiosity about the world by bringing geography to life with this exciting postcard map. In this ongoing activity, your child will track your family's travels and explore other countries vicariously through friends and pen pals.

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Disguising fraction lessons as baking provides your little chef with math practice without him even realizing. Give these yummy pumpkin breakfast muffins a Halloween twist by decorating them with ghostly marshmallows.

Build a Balloon ... Out of Paper!

Build a Balloon ... Out of Paper!

Engage your child's fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by guiding her through this origami balloon activity. Incredibly, this beautiful design uses just one piece of paper!

Make Jumbo "Cupcake" Crayons

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.

Make a Magazine Christmas Tree

Make a Magazine Christmas Tree

Here's an activity to get you and your child into the holiday spirit. With a little help, your child can magically transform a simple magazine into a miniature Christmas tree that will bring holiday cheer to any room in the house.

Create a Thanksgiving Jigsaw Puzzle

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!

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