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.
Make a Homework Helper Bookmark!
Here's a quick and easy project that ensures your child won't forget his assignments--or his place in the reading. Have your child create a homework helper bookmark!
Make a Paper Mache Apple for Teacher!
This art activity encourages your child to create her own paper mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.
Create a Classroom Pop-Up Book
Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book! Your child can create a classroom design filled with desks chairs, tables, and more that will pop up to life each time a page is turned.
Create a Reused School Supply Collage!
Instead of tossing old school supplies, try turning them into a work of art! This collage activity will encourage your child to reuse his old materials.
My Back to School Family Photo Collage
Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos and a little bit of imagination, your child can collage a cheerful memento of home.
Make Your Own Ruler
This activity encourages young learners to explore math and measuring concepts within a practical craft activity. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!
Practice Papermaking with Coffee Can Ornaments
Create easy, colorful ornaments using nothing more than a coffee can, window screen, cookie cutters, scrap pieces of colored paper and a blender. This is a great project that introduces children to papermaking.
Make a Folded Paper Illuminaria!
This simple illuminaria can be made for any season or holiday. It's so fun that parents and kids alike will enjoy making a new one for each special holiday!
Explore Symmetry: Draw the Other Half
Get your middle schooler to explore artistic symmetry in this activity that has her practicing art and math measurements by drawing the other half of a given face.
Art and Science Fun: Make a Shaving Cream Painting
Let your kindergartener squish his way to an understanding of colors with some shaving cream and food coloring. Here's a hands-on activity that shows your child how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.
