Arts & Crafts Activities : Page 2

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Your child will have fun creating an Earth Day Plate that he can eat off as often as he likes!

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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

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

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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.

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

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.