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Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Have your high-schooler immerse himself in art history with this hands-on lesson.

Show your high schooler how to map out his life's intentions by creating a Sankofa, a symbol that will remind him that his choices determine his course.

Try this fun and creative art project with you high-schooler to teach her a little art history keep her artistic mind active this summer.

Play Exquisite Corpse with your high schooler to give her a taste of French Surrealism while working collaboratively to create unique and funky pieces of art!

Bring a swell of high sea adventure to your own living room with this quick and easy paper sailboat craft!

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

Return to school in style! Dress up your pencil holders with this delightful and always seasonally appropriate arts and craft project.

Get inspired by nature and use recycled materials to create unforgettable pencil holders in time for the back to school season.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Get your middle schooler to explore symmetry and practice art and math measurements; have her draw the other half of a given face!

Your middle schooler's favorite book is being made into a motion picture, and she's the chosen designer. Help her create a movie poster to entice viewers.

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Let your child create a fun and easy locker blackboard out of an old cereal box!

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.

You may have a future Van Gogh, Picasso, or Warhol on your hands! Challenge your teen to reproduce her favorite painting with a brand new medium.

Combine your creative fifth grader's love of nature, art and poetry with leaf printing!

Channel the artistic spirit of Romare Bearden by making a mixed media collage to express different moods.

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!