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

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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

Offer your child an interactive approach to understanding the different family roles and the ways in which she has impacted other members of the family.

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

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Create a personalized gift bag by turning a plain brown paper lunch bag into a custom-designed costume or shirt.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

Turn the marks on the wall into art! Create fingerpaint flamingos, herons and ostriches with this fun craft for kids.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

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!