5th - 7th Grade Painting & Drawing Activities

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

Create your own version of an Aboriginal Australian dot painting in this fun activity!

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

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

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

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

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Make hand-painted stemware to give away as a gift in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

This art project encourages kids to look closely at their favorite animal and recreate texture, pattern and silhouette with easy to follow instructions.

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

This Pysanky egg-decorating activity is perfect for young artists. Bring a little color and creativity to any holiday with this traditional Ukrainian craft.

Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. In this activity, your child can put pick up a paintbrush and create a self-portrait inspired by this renowned artist.

Help your fifth grader honor Black History month and the musical genre of jazz by crafting decorative music notes embellished with jazz musical instruments.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

Combine your creative fifth grader's love of nature, art and poetry with leaf printing!

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

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

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

Kids learn about pointillism as they make their own self-portrait in the style of famed American artist Chuck Close.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

Looking for a customized locker accessory? Try this DIY Mirror Craft and spruce up a plain old mirror with some original designs.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Create your very own creepy, haunted castle sitting in a turbulent field of flowing grass, eerily surrounded by dark, ominous clouds.

This unique drawing activity gives kids a chance to practice their concentration and focus, and the end result is sure to bring lots of laughs!

Celebrate autumn by making a beautiful pastel art piece with corn as its theme.