In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

This easy indoor activity teaches kids how to mix kitchen ingredients into watercolor paints, while giving a crash course in color-combining.

In this unique 5th grade arts and crafts project, your budding artist can imitate ancient rock art by creating his own petroglyphs on sandpaper with crayons.

This project is a great way to explore variations in how to paint using watercolor.

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

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

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

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

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.

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!

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

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Let your child create a fun and easy locker blackboard out of an old cereal box!

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

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.

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

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

Learn about the beautiful Indian art of Madhubani painting with this fun and creative project.

Spice up a traditional watercolor painting project with magazine cutout letters that spell out your favorite poem.

Create a silhouetted Halloween candle holder with this upcycled activity!

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

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Be careful what you wish for... Centered around The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, this writing activity encourages your child to consider consequences.

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

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

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