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Kindergarten Painting & Drawing Activities

Kindergarteners are balls of creative energy just waiting for an outlet! Give your little one plenty of opportunities to express themselves through painting, drawing, and other art projects. From more traditional paintbrush, coloring, and paper projects to stained glass, shaving cream, and food art, our activities provide endless ways for young artists to learn, explore, and create.

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Kindergarten

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Make Stained Glass Crayons

Make Stained Glass Crayons

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

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Draw Shadow Art

Draw Shadow Art

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

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Produce a Vegetable Puppet Play

Produce a Vegetable Puppet Play

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

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Make a Rock Salt Mosaic

Make a Rock Salt Mosaic

Is your kindergartener getting tired of the standard art supplies? How about making a mosaic? This recipe is kinder safe, no broken glass involved!

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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.

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Get Colorful with a Stained Glass Drawing!

Get Colorful with a Stained Glass Drawing!

Do this fun art project to brighten up your home with an easy-to-make stained glass window drawing!

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Paint with Food!

Paint with Food!

Does your kid love crafts AND food? Teach him to paint with natural dyes from food! He'll be amazed that food can be made into art, just like in ancient times.

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Make a Magnet Painting

Make a Magnet Painting

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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Pine Cone Decorations

Pine Cone Decorations

Pine cone decorations are fun and festive for the Christmas season. Make pine cone decorations with your child to celebrate the beauty of winter.

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Body Stamps

In this arts and crafts activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using some paint and his own hands and feet.

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Draw Sidewalk Chalk Family Portraits

Draw Sidewalk Chalk Family Portraits

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

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Create Your Own Paintbrushes!

Create Your Own Paintbrushes!

Using only the elements in your backyard, make paintbrushes with your child and create truly homemade works of art.

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Make a Garland of Flags!

Make a Garland of Flags!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

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Plant a Memory

Preserve some precious memories this Mother's Day! Make a shoe planter out of that old pair of your child's favorite shoes.

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Cloud Writing

Create this quick and easy craft with your kindergarten child, and then let his imagination float free as he writes about it!

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Make a Word Quilt Collage

Make a Word Quilt Collage

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

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Make a Bubble Pipe

Make a Bubble Pipe

There's something magical about bubbles. Here's a way to turn an old favorite into something new, by ditching that plastic wand for a homemade bubble pipe.

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Paint a Morning, Noon, and Night Triptych

Paint a Morning, Noon, and Night Triptych

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

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Draw Your Self-Portrait

Draw Your Self-Portrait

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages your kindergartener to explore what makes him special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

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Animal Portraits

Animal Portraits

In this arts and crafts activity, let your preschooler create an animal portrait and learn patterns and textures while she's at it.

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Make Your Own Stress Ball

Make Your Own Stress Ball

Your child can help eliminate stress for himself or a loved one by creating a colorful, homemade stress ball.

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Cloud Observation

Cloud Observation

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging her to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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Relief Sculpture: Fall Leaves

Relief Sculpture: Fall Leaves

This fun arts and crafts activity will help your child learn about the colors of the different seasons through the art of relief sculpture.

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Make a Bug Headband

Make a Bug Headband

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs she can think of, then she'll add antennae so she can pretend to be a bug herself!

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Paper Plate Ring Toss

Paper Plate Ring Toss

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

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