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

Patterns are everywhere. This activity allows your child to practice inventing their own patterns while creating a portrait of a pet.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

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

Recycle an old soda bottle into a beautiful, functional soap dish! In this project your child will practice saving the environment in a proactive way.

This adorable activity is a great way to share the Gingerbread Man story with your kid while she practices assemblage.

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

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

Help your child explore this ancient art technique with the help of some tinfoil, black paint and the end of a paintbrush!

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

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

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

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