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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. Just in time for The Holidays take a look at all of our Kids Christmas Crafts!

Trim the Tree with "Glass" Candy Ornaments

Trim the Tree with "Glass" Candy Ornaments

Using cookie cutters and a little help from an adult, youngsters can turn hard candies into colorful faux glass ornaments for the holidays. They will be fascinated as the hard candies melt when heated and harden again when cool.

Start Your Day Right with Car Toast

Start Your Day Right with Car Toast

Research shows that children who eat a nutritious breakfast do better in school and are healthier overall. To help your child get a head start on his day, transform ordinary toast into edible cars that he's sure to gobble up!

Build a Zucchini Racer

Build a Zucchini Racer

When your garden is overrun by zucchini and your family rebels at the prospect of eating yet another loaf of zucchini bread, turn your bumper crop into a fleet of funky veggie-mobiles.

Make a Mashed Potato Snowman

Make a Mashed Potato Snowman

To offset the sugary indulgences of the holidays, create this frosty and edible friend. Your child will have so much fun building and eating his snowman, he won't even realize he's getting his vegetables!

Craft a Cereal Abacus

Craft a Cereal Abacus

Your child probably tires of the monotony of flash cards and workbooks quickly, but she'll be fooled by this colorful, interactive counting box! Use O-shaped cereal for counters and she'll practice her counting without even realizing.

Make Bottle Cap Magnets

Make Bottle Cap Magnets

Let your child's creativity shine by showing him how to create personalized bottle cap magnets to hold up his creations. He can use favorite drawings, family photographs, or magazine pictures to design his own magnets!

Symmetrical Butterfly Birthday Card

Symmetrical Butterfly Birthday Card

Your child will be enchanted with her ability to paint a brilliant butterfly made up of perfectly even shapes. This fantastic introduction to symmetry will also stimulate her creativity and fine motor skills.

Become an Amateur Author!

Become an Amateur Author!

Nothing is better than a book for opening up uncharted territory for your little one to discover! Encourage your child to create a fresh new world of her own by making and writing her very own book.

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Disguising fraction lessons as baking provides your little chef with math practice without him even realizing. Give these yummy pumpkin breakfast muffins a Halloween twist by decorating them with ghostly marshmallows.

Paper Plate Masks: Jack O

Paper Plate Masks: Jack O' Lanterns

Use orange paper plates as the base for these spooky or silly Jack O' Lantern masks. Enlist your child's help in making his own costume by including him in this fun and easy Halloween craft project.

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