This art project encourages kids to look closely at their favorite animal and recreate texture, pattern and silhouette with easy to follow instructions.

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

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

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

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

Have an empty cereal box you're ready to toss in the bin? Help your child recycle that box into some wacky glasses in this fun craft!

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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

Help your child create a piece of spring art by shaking up the traditional silhouette art form with a colorful collage background and vibrant spring color.

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

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.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

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

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Turn up the heat this February with a melted crayon heart, a crafty and colorful decoration for Valentine's Day.

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.