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

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

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!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

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

Everyone loves homemade cookies, but have you ever thought about making the cookie cutters at home? Here's some instructions for making homemade cookie cutters.

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

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

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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.

Give your kid a go at making art like master painter Michelangelo did on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...by making her own colorful angel!

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

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

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!