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Kindergarten Painting & Drawing Activities

Kindergarteners are naturally creative and expressive, with lots of big new feelings to process. Give them an outlet with these kindergarten painting and drawing activities. Bringing structure to art time ensures kids get the most of their experience using paints, brushes and even unconventional materials like shaving cream and sponges.

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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.

Make a Winter Dressing Wheel

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

Make Your Own Paint By Numbers

Your kindergarten artist will love practicing math and coloring when he makes his own unique paint-by-numbers! This activity is creative and educational.

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!

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!

Candy Wrapper Collage

This candy wrapper collage is a cool upcycled craft for after Halloween. Make this candy wrapper collage with all of your leftover candy wrappers.

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!

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!

Create a Picasso-Inspired Santa

This Christmas collage lets your child learn shapes, cubist art of Picasso and have fun during the holidays!

Make Rudolph Treat Cups

These handmade Christmas treat cups are perfect for house parties, school celebrations, and holiday bake sales.

Make an Abstract Tea Leaf Painting

Most people throw out soaked tea bags after use, but artists know a secret--tea bags can be a great medium for creating one-of-a-kind modern art.

Fruit and Vegetable Prints

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Cardboard Playhouse

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

Make an Oil Sun Catcher

Make an eye catching sun catcher with your child that not only brightens any window but also builds his fine motor skills and creativity.

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Make Your Own Maccabee Shield

Your kindergartener will be delighted to refine his motor and conceptual skills as he creates his own Maccabee shield in honor of the Maccabee revolt.

Create a Portrait

Express the love that you share with your child this Valentine's Day by creating unique "me and you" portraits together!

Wham! Bam! Kapow!: Cartoon Storytelling

Challenge your kindergartener to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve his fine motor skills in the process.

Make Andy Warhol-Inspired Prints

Introduce your kindergartener to some art history by showing him how to create an everyday object print, Andy Warhol-style.

With a few strokes of white paint, kids can transform an old family photograph into a lovely winter scene in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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 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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