Make a Decorative Paperweight!
Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!
Create Life-Sized Body Stamps
Let's face it: kids love stamps. So why not let kids create their own? In this activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using his own little hands and feet.
Make a City of Bags
Forget 2-D maps. It's time for 3-D! Help your kids become more aware of their community by making 3-D maps of your neighborhood.
What Do I Wear? Make Weather Clothing Tags
Help your child choose weather-appropriate clothing with easy-to-make color-coded clothing markers.
Create a Stained Glass Rose Window
One of the most beautiful parts of every cathedral is the stained glass window above the entrance, called a Rose window. Your child can create their own work of beauty based on these centuries-old works of art.
Make a Foil Painting
Here's a way to spruce up a boring art routine: make a foil painting! Your preschooler will have a great time using paints on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art.
Make a Paper Mosaic!
Mosaics are great fun for the part of the brain that recognizes patterns, and can help build geometrical awareness in your child. Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!
Learn Shapes with a Santa Collage
Disguise a lesson focused on learning important shapes as a special holiday art project, and she won't even realize she's learning!
Create Line Design Prints
Line designs can be straight, curvy, zigzagged, or wavy. Teach your child how to create lots and lots of line designs by wrapping string around wooden blocks, and using them to create line-filled prints.
Craft Pinecone People
Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kid how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.
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