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!

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

Turn your child's learning about ancient civilizations into a swashbuckling adventure by having her make an ancient treasure map!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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.

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Batik is a fabric dying technique usually done with hot wax. This flour-and-water method is kid-safe and easy, and it creates beautiful batik designs.

Got an aspiring illustrator or animator on your hands? Let your child try making his own hand-drawn animation by creating a 4th of July flip book.

Why pay for expensive plates when you can paint original designs on your own dishes? This fun activity will bring out your kid's creative side.

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.

Learn about Rosh Hashanah and other Jewish holidays by planning and creating a Jewish holiday calendar.

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

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

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Fireworks are such an exciting part of part of summer festivities, but it's sad when the show is over. Keep them alive all year long with watercolor fireworks.

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.