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.
Paper Plate Ring Toss
Here's an easy activity to play a county fair favorite: Paper Plate Ring Toss! Use paper plates to create the rings while teaching your child about direction and number values. It's a fun way to mix fun with basic math.
Craft a Horse Prop
If your child wants to pretend to be a cowboy, you can bet that he needs a horse! Make one at home using an empty dish soap bottle, a broom stick, and some pieces of felt for one grade-A prop! It makes a perfect toy to use in all sorts of imaginative play!
Practice the Alphabet with Felt and Flannel Fun!
Help your preschooler get a jump start on her reading skills with this fun activity! Using homemade felt letters and 26 colorful pictures, she'll get to practice recognizing letters and the sounds they make. This fun matching game will get her acquainted with the alphabet in no time.
Tissue Paper Butterfly Hunt
Need a little "Spring" in your step? Try Tissue Paper Butterfly Hunt! This fun craft activity is easy enough for your child to help, and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.
Practice Colors and Numbers with Clothespin Colors!
To help your child have a good time practicing colors and numbers try playing Clothespin Colors, a fun matching game! It will help your preschooler with his colors, patterns, and counting!
Have Fun with Yellow Science
Here's an easy and fun science project that uses all things yellow! It's exciting for your preschooler because she'll get to watch substances mix together, and you'll love it because it will help her increase observation and comparing skills!
Writing on Cloud Nine!
Let your second grader's imagination shine through with this fun activity, while helping him develop critical writing skills! Use adjectives to create a story about what life would be like on a cloud. Your child will have a fun time writing which should get you up on "cloud nine"!
Pipes
This simple project turns hardware store leftovers into an imaginative, interactive toy. Plastic pipes and connectors are durable and endlessly re-workable. Keep some handy for a spontaneous exercise in spatial awareness and manual dexterity anytime!
Ojo de Dios
In this activity, give your child some insight into another culture with this craft activity: create an ojo de Dios (eye of God), a representation of the yarn weaving done by the Huichol population of northwest Mexico.
Sound Shakers
Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make! He'll also get a headstart on patterning as he makes up his own musical beats.
