Arts and Crafts for Kids
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Arts & crafts
Papier-Mâché Masks
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Papier-Mâché Masks
Here's an arts and crafts activity for your budding artist: make a fitted paper-mache mask. Once it's complete you can use it in a play or hang it as art!
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Papier-Mâché Puppet Wizardry
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Papier-Mâché Puppet Wizardry
Guide your middle schooler through making his own papier-maché witch or wizard puppet. Move over Harry Potter!
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Construct an Edible Holiday Train
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Construct an Edible Holiday Train
A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.
3rd grade
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Tissue Paper Flower Bouquet
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Tissue Paper Flower Bouquet
Create an bouquet of flowers that will last forever using plastic straws and tissue paper!
Preschool
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Write Secret Messages
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Write Secret Messages
Your first grader or preschooler will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!
Kindergarten
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Make a Paper Bag Costume
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Make a Paper Bag Costume
Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.
1st grade
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Paint a Butterfly Birthday Card
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Paint a Butterfly Birthday Card
Your kindergartener will love being able to paint a beautiful butterfly, and the lucky recipient of the finished card will be just as delighted!
Kindergarten
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Make a Magazine Christmas Tree
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Make a Magazine Christmas Tree
Here's a green arts and crafts activity that will get your preteen into the holiday spirit: transform an old magazine into a miniature Christmas tree!
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Make Jumbo "Cupcake" Crayons
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Make Jumbo "Cupcake" Crayons
Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.
Kindergarten
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Build a Balloon...Out of Paper!
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Build a Balloon...Out of Paper!
Teach your fifth grader the ancient Japanese art of origami with this incredible origami balloon that uses just one piece of paper!
5th grade
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Build a Pom Pom Bat
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Build a Pom Pom Bat
Your third grader will delight in making this creepy night-flying creature using a simple pom pom!
1st grade
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Make Your Own Postcard
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Make Your Own Postcard
Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding him in creating his very own postcards out of favorite family photographs.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Build a Zucchini Racer
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Build a Zucchini Racer
This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!
1st grade
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Recycled Plastic Wallet
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Recycled Plastic Wallet
Show your fifth grader how fun and fashionable recycling can be! Guide her in making her own wallet by fusing together old plastic bags with an iron.
5th grade
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Create a Clothespin Giraffe Recipe Holder
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Create a Clothespin Giraffe Recipe Holder
Ask your fourth grader to jazz up the family kitchen by creating this adorable clothespin giraffe to sit on the counter and hold recipe cards.
4th grade
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Make a Milk Carton Bird House
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Make a Milk Carton Bird House
Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.
1st grade
Science
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Envelope Scrapbook
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Envelope Scrapbook
Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.
1st grade
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DIY Costume Wig
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DIY Costume Wig
This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.
2nd grade
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Cookie Collage
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Cookie Collage
Here, kids can make edible collages out of cookies and candy. Colorful, creative, and delicious, they make great gifts for sweet-toothed family and friends.
2nd grade
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Lace a Face
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Lace a Face
Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!
1st grade
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Make Day of the Dead Masks
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Make Day of the Dead Masks
Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.
2nd grade
Social studies
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Egyptian Sarcophagus
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Egyptian Sarcophagus
Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.
3rd grade
Social studies
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Make a Tooth Fairy Tooth Holder
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Make a Tooth Fairy Tooth Holder
Help keep your child's baby teeth safe with this cute tooth-shaped felt pillow that comes with a little pouch that's just the right size for a lost tooth.
Kindergarten
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Make a Magnetic Mouse Maze
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Make a Magnetic Mouse Maze
Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.
2nd grade
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Homemade Pillow
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Homemade Pillow
Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.
1st grade
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Arts and Crafts for Kids
Arts and crafts are great for learners of all ages. From preschool paper plate tambourines to fifth grade homemade thermometers, the Education.com arts and crafts activities below will keep students’ learning fun and engaged. With a wide range of DIY, decorative, and scientific arts and crafts activities below, your arts and crafts classroom ideas list will never be empty again.