Arts and Crafts Activities

Arts and Crafts activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy arts and crafts activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Browse the activities below or use the selector to find similar activities.

Thumbprint Christmas Tree Cards

Recipients will agree that these homemade cards beat store-bought, boxed cards any day.

Arts and Crafts: Painting & Drawing | Preschool | Christmas

Make a Sand Painting

Sand isn't just for the beach anymore. Kids can use sand to create colorful masterpieces that are beautiful and useful.

Arts and Crafts: Construction & Sculpture | Kindergarten

Make Rice Pictures

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry!

Writing: Fine Motor Skills | Arts and Crafts: Painting & Drawing | Preschool

Shake Your Shekere

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

Arts and Crafts: Recycled Crafts | Fourth Grade | Black History Month

Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel: Make it Out of Clay

As the song goes, your child can make his own dreidel out of clay, and modeling clay works best! It dries quickly, is quite tidy, and can easily be decorated with marking pens.

Arts and Crafts: Construction & Sculpture | First Grade | Hanukkah

Directions First: Reading to Draw

Here's an activity that'll encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to decode directions on colors, numbers, and shapes in order to create cool pictures he can add to his art collection!

Reading: Comprehension | Arts and Crafts: Painting & Drawing | First Grade

Make an African Djembe Drum

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own Djembe drum! This fun art activity is a great way to explore music and rhythm as you celebrate Black History Month.

Arts and Crafts: Recycled Crafts | Kindergarten | Martin Luther King | Black History Month

Create Squishy Paint Art

Featuring plenty of good old-fashioned gooey fun without the mess, this art project is sure to please little ones and grown-ups alike.

Arts and Crafts: Painting & Drawing | Science: Colors | Preschool

Make Clay Idioms a "Piece of Cake"!

Idioms, words or phrases that have figurative meanings different from their literal ones, can be found everywhere from the books we read to our everyday conversations. Idioms are also inspiration for this fun, hands-on activity!

Reading: Vocabulary | Arts and Crafts: Construction & Sculpture | Third Grade

Play with Pasta...and Learn to Write

Pasta makes a great dinner, but it can also be used to teach kids proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll help your child become aware of the way letters should be formed-- all with a little pasta and glue.

Writing: Letters | Arts and Crafts: Paper & Glue Crafts | Kindergarten