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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Play with Pasta...and Learn to Write
Pasta makes a great dinner, but it can also be used to teach kids proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll help your child become aware of the way letters should be formed-- all with a little pasta and glue.
Drawing Shadow Art
Here's an activity that will develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day!
Make a Sight Word Book
Want to give your kid a leg up with sight words? Put the flash cards away and pull out the construction paper! By creating her own book, your kindergartener can create something she'll be proud of, and get ten key sight words under her belt at the same time.
