This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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

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

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

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!

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

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Bring a swell of high sea adventure to your own living room with this quick and easy paper sailboat craft!

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

Great for bath time, or anytime your child is feeling creative, these bright bathtub paints are a fun and low-mess way to spice up art time.

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

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

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!

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

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

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

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

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

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your first-grader or second-grader using crayons and black paint to create a beautiful wax-resist nightscape.

Create a little magic with this special craft that transforms a regular paper tree into a Valentine masterpiece.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!