Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

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

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

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Patterns come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. As your child alters one element and then another they'll create a unique piece of artwork.

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

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

This Christmas collage lets your child learn shapes, cubist art of Picasso and have fun during the holidays!

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Spice up your Easter routine this year by making these stunningly sparkly eggs with your third grader. This is a great activity to do to celebrate the holiday.

This project makes learning the difference between warm and cool colors easy and fun. And it's a great intro to complimentary colors - great for pop art!

Put your individual fingerprint on the 100th Day of School (literally!) with this activity.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Hand-painted pottery is the perfect way to add a bit of decoration to your potted plants.

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

Most people throw out soaked tea bags after use, but artists know a secret--tea bags can be a great medium for creating one-of-a-kind modern art.

Liven up your Christmas decor with vibrant reindeer created from cardboard. This decoration can hang above a fireplace, over a door, or across a wall.

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.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

Use your handprints to create a Halloween spider in this fun arts-and-crafts activity!

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

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

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

Express the love that you share with your child this Valentine's Day by creating unique "me and you" portraits together!

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.