Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Ombre art is all the rage. Help your young artist learn all about tints and shades while creating a piece of art to celebrate Valentine's Day.

This fun and easy activity encourages the skill of overlapping objects, while your child gets to draw his own farm and color in clip art farm animals!

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

Add a flourish of flowers to your dining table with simple and creative sponge art!

This art exercise is great way to help kids learn how to see just like a professional painter, while experimenting and having fun with monochromatic color!

Pine cone decorations are fun and festive for the Christmas season. Make pine cone decorations with your child to celebrate the beauty of winter.

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

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.

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

Sure, your kid may already be a Picasso with a paintbrush, but even fancy artists need a new challenge.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

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

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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 create an adorable -- or gruesome -- miniature pumpkin candle holder that will shed some tiny pools of light on your dining table or counter.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

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

It's not always bad to think negatively -- step into the creative and unique world of negative space drawing!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!