Kids learn about pointillism as they make their own self-portrait in the style of famed American artist Chuck Close.

In this unique 5th grade arts and crafts project, your budding artist can imitate ancient rock art by creating his own petroglyphs on sandpaper with crayons.

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!

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

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

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

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

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

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

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.

Create your own version of an Aboriginal Australian dot painting in this fun activity!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Fashion forward kids get a chance to unleash their inner designer by creating their own fabric-embellished shoes in this teen arts and crafts activity.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

Encourage your child to explore color and its mood-altering effects by creating his own self portrait using only warm or cool colors.

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

Make hand-painted stemware to give away as a gift in this unique arts and crafts activity.

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

Show your fifth grader how to make this fun vinyl robot to spruce up her walls. Itâs quick to construct and easy to remove or transfer from wall to wall.

Let your child create a fun and easy locker blackboard out of an old cereal box!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Combine your creative fifth grader's love of nature, art and poetry with leaf printing!

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

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

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