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.
Underwater I Spy Alphabet Bottle
This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.
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.
Branch Out: Create an Alphabet Tree!
Help your child to begin a life long love of the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with alphabet trees!
Craft Your Own Abacus!
Countries around the world have been using the abacus throughout history to make arithmetic easier to calculate. Here's an activity that has your child making an abacus, a tool that can make learning arithmetic highly visual and tactile!
Decorate Your Own Locker Mirror!
Help your middle-schooler get off to an organized, stylish start this school year by decorating her own locker mirror. It's a fun and inexpensive way to add some personality to an otherwise dull locker!
Make a Lunchbox Magnet Board
Here's a way to get your kids involved in the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!
Craft Unique Fridge Magnets
If you're looking for a way to display your child's artwork on the fridge, look no further! This activity recycles old magnets from insurance companies and turns them into pieces of flair for your fridge. Get creative as you make one-of-a-kind magnets for your one-of-a-kind kid!
Kindergarten Readiness: Map The Day!
Start the school year off right and help your new kindergartner map his day. You'll practice early social studies skills - and give your child some valuable reassurance, too.
Decorate a Homework Clipboard!
This school year, try this fun activity watch your fourth grader do homework in style!
Make an "I'm Studying" Door Hanger
Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which will get him in the groove to start studying and set the school year off right!
