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Arts and Crafts for Kids

Arts and crafts for kids are fun for children and the young-at-heart! These art & craft activities cover a wide range of subjects for young artists, future artisanal book makers, potential puppeteers, and more. These aren't just arts and crafts for kids; they're fun for the whole family too! Our selection of art projects for kids, DIY activities, and decoration ideas also provide excellent inspiration for craft ideas for kids. Try some of these activities with your children, and have fun with crafts for kids to make.

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Fireworks Painting

This Fourth of July, create some explosive colors on black paper for fun Fourth of July decorations!

Toilet Paper Roll Maracas

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Help your first grader build up his sight words by creating a reading pointer and having him take the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Here's a fun and magical art activity, where kids paint an invisible picture that can only be revealed when painted over with watercolors!

Craft Fizzing Bath Soaps

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Make a Handprint Butterfly

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Make a Pom Pom Caterpillar!

In this fun preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

This science project lets kids explore what happens when water and paper interact, and it produces homemade paper perfect for gift tags or stationery.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Create Aboriginal Handprint Art

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

Paint with Bubbles!

Want to create some really unusual artwork and introduce your little artist to color combining? Try out some bubble painting!

Make a Recycled Twig Birdhouse

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

Healthy Food Hunt

Teach your preschooler about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for her with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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 his own!

Bottle Race Car

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Paint a Handprint Mermaid

This underwater painting is as colorful as it is fun!

Story Sequencing Activity

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Craft a Magic Fairy Wand

Craft a sparkling magic wand and let your child pretend she's a fairy, wizard, or magician!

Hand-Dipped Candles

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Make a Better Paper Airplane

Turn the common time killer of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Different Textures

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery--and then he'll make a texture book!

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

Paper Bag Reindeer

Paper bag reindeer are perfect for handing out holiday goodies in style. Make a paper bag reindeer with your child this Christmas season.

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