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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.

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Easter Egg Designs

Easter Egg Designs

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

3rd grade

Science

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Impressionist Painting for Kids

Impressionist Painting for Kids

Have your preschooler paint like Monet, and build crucial handwriting skills at the same time!

Preschool

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Make a "Mood Meter" Sign

Make a "Mood Meter" Sign

Make a color coded "mood meter" with your kindergartener to help her recognize and tell her feelings while building reading and writing skills.

Kindergarten

Social studies

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Make Paper Plate Tambourines

Make Paper Plate Tambourines

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Preschool

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Rainbow Barrette Holder

Rainbow Barrette Holder

Help your daughter organize all of her barrettes with this fun and colorful activity!

Kindergarten

Activity

Make a Thanksgiving Table Runner

Make a Thanksgiving Table Runner

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

1st grade

Activity

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Write a Story From an Ant's Perspective

Here's a writing activity that helps first graders explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Craft Corn Harvest Napkin Rings

Craft Corn Harvest Napkin Rings

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Kindergarten

Activity

Make Your Own Coin Bank!

Make Your Own Coin Bank!

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Kindergarten

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Build a Pine Cone Bird Feeder!

Build a Pine Cone Bird Feeder!

Build a kindergarten bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Kindergarten

Science

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Give Birds a Feast with This Suet Feeder

Give Birds a Feast with This Suet Feeder

Feed your birds from kitchen leftovers and give your first grader some excellent scientific practice in identifying our feathered friends.

1st grade

Science

Activity

Watch Your Garden Grow

Watch Your Garden Grow

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Kindergarten

Science

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Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

Paint Like Jackson Pollock!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Activity

Reading Tour

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!

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Write a Concrete Poem For Mom

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Make a Pasta Pattern Necklace

Make a Pasta Pattern Necklace

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

Kindergarten

Activity

Shaving Cream Paintings

Shaving Cream Paintings

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Kindergarten

Science

Activity

Decorative Light Switch Covers

Decorative Light Switch Covers

Quickly update your child's room by decorating the switchplate over the light switch! It will add a funky flair to any room in the house.

Preschool

Activity

Decorate Your Own Lampshade

Decorate Your Own Lampshade

Here's a preschool arts and crafts project that makes personalizing your child's room affordable, easy and fun.

Preschool

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Decorate Your Own Pillowcase

Decorate Your Own Pillowcase

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

Preschool

Activity

Make Your Own Puzzle

Make Your Own Puzzle

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Preschool

Activity

'Handy' Thanksgiving Wreath

'Handy' Thanksgiving Wreath

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

2nd grade

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

1st grade

Science

Activity

Cinderella's Carriage

Cinderella's Carriage

Jump into the story of Cinderella by making a pumpkin coach of your own!

1st grade

Activity

Coffee Can Stilts

Coffee Can Stilts

If you have a young child who loves physical stunts, try making these coffee-can stilts for backyard fun.

Kindergarten

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