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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Handprint Turkey
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Handprint Turkey
Make a handprint turkey with your child to celebrate Thanksgiving. A handprint turkey makes a great base for Thanksgiving coasters, note cards, or place cards.
Preschool
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Make a Thanksgiving Cornucopia
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Make a Thanksgiving Cornucopia
Your preschooler or kindergartener will learn about Thanksgiving and the symbolic Fall cornucopia with this festive homemade decoration activity!
Preschool
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Make a Paper Plate Turkey Photo Frame
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Make a Paper Plate Turkey Photo Frame
Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.
1st grade
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Paint a Cornucopia Still Life!
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Paint a Cornucopia Still Life!
Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!
Kindergarten
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Make a Mixed-Up Turkey Collage
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Make a Mixed-Up Turkey Collage
This unexpected art project is sure to result in a Picasso-esque jumble of imagination that will teach your kid about shapes, colors, and abstract form!
Kindergarten
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Make a Tissue Paper Turkey
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Make a Tissue Paper Turkey
Create an adorable, non-edible turkey decked out with colorful bursts of tissue paper that pop off the page.
Preschool
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Halloween Party Game
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Halloween Party Game
Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.
2nd grade
Math
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Make a Cornucopia Table Setting
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Make a Cornucopia Table Setting
This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.
2nd grade
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Celebrate Kwanzaa: Weave a Mkeka
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Celebrate Kwanzaa: Weave a Mkeka
Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!
4th grade
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African Shield
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African Shield
Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.
4th grade
Social studies
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Martin Luther King Collage
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Martin Luther King Collage
Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.
4th grade
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Create a Cardboard Snowman!
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Create a Cardboard Snowman!
Not sure what to do with all of those leftover boxes from holiday gifts? Tap into your crafty side by creating an adorable snow person with your child. This activity is sure to bring smiles to those who pass your yard or come into your home all season lon
Preschool
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Make an African Mask
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Make an African Mask
Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.
5th grade
Social studies
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Paper Music Notes
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Paper Music Notes
Help your fifth grader honor Black History month and the musical genre of jazz by crafting decorative music notes embellished with jazz musical instruments.
5th grade
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Make Your Own Kente Cloth
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Make Your Own Kente Cloth
Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.
3rd grade
Social studies
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Make a Jackie Robinson Baseball Card
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Make a Jackie Robinson Baseball Card
Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!
3rd grade
Social studies
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Make a Shekere Instrument
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Make a Shekere Instrument
Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.
4th grade
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Paint a Frida Kahlo Inspired Self-Portrait
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Paint a Frida Kahlo Inspired Self-Portrait
Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.
4th grade
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Paint Ireland
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Paint Ireland
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.
2nd grade
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How to Make a Bouncy Ball
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How to Make a Bouncy Ball
In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.
5th grade
Science
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