Drawing and Painting

Dip a rock in paint, drop it into a container with a piece of paper, put on the lid, and shake, shake, shake to create an interesting design.

Preschoolers love this loopy coloring activity. Read the instructions and help your child get started.

Follow this recipe for homemade paint, and let your toddler use it in a squeeze bottle.

Spin art is a little messy, but it's a fun painting activity for older toddlers.

In this activity, your preschooler will work with traced images of his hands and feet.

Instead of throwing away dried up markers, let your toddler use them as an alternative to paint brushes.

For this colorful toddler painting activity, you can use feathers from the craft store, or bird feathers you find outside.

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

This alternative to paints can make your toddler's art projects less messy.

Mix rubber cement and tempera paint to give your toddler's homemade place mat a unique appearance.

Bubble painting is fun and produces interesting results! Try it with your preschooler.

Follow these directions to help your child make a flipbook for animating his own drawings.

In this art project, your toddler can either blow the paint with the straw, or use the straw as a paint brush.

This preschool art activity involves running paint-soaked marbles across a sheet of paper.

Teach your child a drawing technique called pointillism with this art activity.

If you don't have time to set out paper and crayons for your toddler, try this easy method for encouraging art.

Using tempera paint, your preschooler can decorate your window with leaf patterns.

Create texture with crayon rubbings by layering objects, shifting the paper, and trying other suggested options.