Transform an old chair into a chalkboard canvas! This painting activity is a useful and creative way to add some quirky charm to your existing furniture.

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

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!

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

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

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

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

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Make the prehistoric monsters of the past seem a bit more real with a craft that brings the chill of the Ice Age to life!

Forget model kits! Promote creativity by having your child construct a dinosaur model using marshmallows and toothpicks.

Your child can pretend she is a pro by creating a crackle painting that looks and feels like a classic work of art!

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

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!

Let the world be your canvas by transforming an ordinary household window into a snowy holiday scene.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Your child can learn more about Vincent van Gogh's influential style of painting by creating an homage to Starry Night, one his most beloved paintings.

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

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

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!