Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

Let little unsteady fingers practice their coordination with this preschool painting activity. Your kid develops his hand-eye coordination while making art.

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.

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

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

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.

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!

Have an empty cereal box you're ready to toss in the bin? Help your child recycle that box into some wacky glasses in this fun craft!

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

Create a personalized gift bag by turning a plain brown paper lunch bag into a custom-designed costume or shirt.

Bubble wrap is fun to pop, but it's also fun to paint with! Paint a pretty seascape using bubble wrap as your brush.

Explore the changing seasons with your preschooler by helping her create a cork-stamped masterpiece.

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

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Kids print their own smudges, then turn them into silly monsters that are sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Featuring plenty of good old fashioned squishy, gooey fun without the mess, this compromise of an art project is sure to please little ones and grown-ups alike.

Most people throw out soaked tea bags after use, but artists know a secret--tea bags can be a great medium for creating one-of-a-kind modern art.

Homemade face paint is a safe and economical way to jazz up your Halloween costume. Even better, this easy-to-make face paint requires just three ingredients!

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.

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.

Introduce your kindergartener to some art history by showing him how to create an everyday object print, Andy Warhol-style.

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

Turn your childâs love of markers into a really colorful creation with the help of some water and a big brush.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschooler: make pendulum paintings using only a funnel, canvas, and paint!

Have your child create her own version of an ancient Egyptian jewelry cuff similar to one that a goddess might have worn with this fun recycled craft.

Quickly update your child's room by decorating the switchplate over the light switch! It will add a funky flair to any room in the house.

Put a spin on your child's old routine with this salad spinner painting project.

All your preschooler needs to create a personalized Halloween memento is their two hands and some black paint.

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!