Play Shoe Box Croquet
There's no need to buy an expensive croquet set to get your child familiar with the sport. This game is fun for the whole family and will improve your child's hand-eye coordination.
Living Room Letterpress
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.
Homemade Beads: 3 Ways
Stringing beads is a fun way to give boredom the boot. Plus, it helps kids practice a key skill...patterning. You can buy a sack of beads at any craft store. But here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.
Make Paper Plate Tambourines
Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your typical preschooler's banging and clanging? Try this quick arts and crafts activity that will produce a homemade paper plate tambourine!
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.
Shaving Cream Paintings
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.
Turn an Old T-Shirt into a Pillow
If your child has outgrown his favorite t-shirt but can't bear to part with it, why not recycle it into a pillow? Pillows are easy to make, and are great gifts, too!
Make Homemade Castanets
Why buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets quicker than you can say, "ole!"
Make Rose Soap Petals
The discovery of soap was one of the most important in human history. For this activity your child will use the ready made glycerin base to create elegant rose petal hand soaps.
Paint a Waterlilly Watering Can
This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for flowers and gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.
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