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.
Create a Venn Diagram Creature!
Venn diagrams provide a perfect starting point for your child to brainstorm ways that two ideas or objects are similar or different. Introduce your child to this technique by helping her create a Venn diagram fantasy creature!
Design Your Own Drums!
It is relatively simple to learn basic drumming techniques, and it produces a great sense of rhythm in the musician. With a little bit of assistance, your little one can make drums of all different shapes and sizes that produce a variety of sounds.
Create a Traditional Japanese "Sempuyo"
Hand making books is an traditional Japanese art that has been passed down for hundreds of years. Encourage your child to explore this unique custom by helping her create a "sempuyo," a Japanese book with accordion-style pages.
Smash Cascarones Art
In Mexico, many festival days, holidays, and saint day celebrations involve the making and smashing of cascarones. Introduce your child to this fantastic custom by helping him make is own!
Paint with Tissue Paper!
This tissue paper painting activity has been cultivated particularly with special needs children in mind. This colorful project encourages the development of your child's attention span, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills.
Construct a Fruit Car!
Show your child how to make her very own vehicle out of fruit! Whether you find the materials from a neighbor's fruit tree, or a stall at the local farmers' market, choosing fruits to invent unique toys is half the fun of this project.
Make an Edible Fruitloop Bracelet!
Froot Loops are colorful and delicious, and now they can be stylish too! Help your special needs child strengthen common developmental issues like hand-eye coordination and focus, and help your math whiz practice sorting, counting, and patterns!
Make a Traditional Mexican Alebrije
For decades, artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico have carved and painted bright, fanciful animal creatures known as alebrijes. Your little one can ignite her creativity by designing her own version of an alebrije, using sculpted clay.
Play Portable Pinball!
Is your child an arcade game enthusiast? Make road trips a breeze and improve her hand-eye coordination by showing her how to make this take-anywhere pinball game!
Discover Chinese Tradition: Create a Unique "Chop"
Since ancient times, Chinese people have signed artwork and official documents with their names as well as a chop containing calligraphic characters. Help your child design and print his own chop!
