Preschool Arts & Crafts Learning Resources

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your preschool child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't - a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Help your preschooler begin reading and writing the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with this easy art project: alphabet trees!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

In this fun preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

Want to create some really unusual artwork and introduce your little artist to color combining? Try out some bubble painting!

Teach your preschooler about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for her with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!