Arts and Crafts

Here are seven different activity ideas for chalk art. Try them all with your child.

Broken eggshells make a great art medium for a preschool child to glue and paint.

Your preschooler can create Spoon People using glue yarn, buttons, and a wooden spoon.

Dying paper towels with food coloring is incredible fun for preschool children.

Preschoolers can make a bear with brown construction paper, white circles, and glue.

Paper doll chains are fun to make, and they can be used as a border on any plain wall in your home.

This activity describes six different chalk art techniques that will inspire your child.

Follow these instructions for making pots without a kiln. The clay can be air-dried or oven-dried.

This toddler art activity uses popped popcorn and tempera paint to make a flower blossom collage.

This art activity produces a print of your toddler's foot, which you can cherish forever.

You and your preschooler can have lots of fun making hot wax crayon prints.

Preschoolers will learn about mixing and matching colors in this fun art activity.

Try this idea for making a colorful fan with your child -- use paint sample cards!

Here's a different way to paint. Starch painting is water soluble, and won't stain clothing.

You can hang painted ceramic tiles on a wall, or use them as coasters or trivets.

Wet paper really makes paint colors flow and blend, for a beautiful effect.

This easy "clay" recipe can be used to make brooches, magnets, necklaces, or picture frames.

You and your toddler can have lots of fun creating paper bag faces together.