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By L. Elizabeth Forry
Arts and Crafts
Arts and Crafts
By L. Elizabeth Forry
Arts and Crafts
By Sharon Greenthal
Entertainment and Activities, Arts and Crafts, Sculpting and Playdough
By Jennifer Caffelle
  • Entertainment and Activities
    Paper Crafts

    In this craft activity, children create a special star to make someone feel good.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Arts and Crafts

    In this craft activity, children create personal fortunes to put into homemade fortune cookies.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    In this craft activity, your child presses flowers and then uses them to make cards for someone special.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Arts and Crafts

    In this family activity, current information is gathered about your family and the world, put into a capsule, and buried -- to be dug up sometime in the future.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Arts and Crafts

    This craft activity describes how children can make shrunken heads out of apples.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Paper Crafts

    You and your child can have lots of fun making paper beads in this craft activity.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    DIY Crafts

    With a little help from you, children can have lots of fun making and selling tie-dyed T-shirts.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Paper Crafts

    This activity provides directions to help children produce letterhead and envelopes using the computer.

  • DIY Crafts
    Entertainment and Activities

    In this craft activity, children will have fun designing and creating decorated shoelaces.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    DIY Crafts
    By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

    Recycle your old shoes with this arts and crafts activity. Your child will have fun creating works of art from old shoes!

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    Abracadabra! Your kids will have a blast making these magic waxed paper pictures.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    DIY Crafts
    By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

    Before you throw those old denims in the rag bag, consider using them to create some jewelry.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    Face painting is lots of fun for kids. This simple recipe cleans up easily with help from cold cream.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    Create bug prints by adding legs and antennae to your child's fingerprints.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Paper Crafts

    This activity shows you how to make customized designer stamps, which you and your child can use to personalize notes and papers.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    DIY Crafts

    Try this simple jewelry activity with your toddler - it's fun as well as easy!

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    Learning to sort colors takes time, but doing so is a good way for your child to begin practicing decision making.

  • Entertainment and Activities
    Drawing and Painting

    In this activity, bleach on a Q-tip removes color from tissue paper, leaving behind an interesting reverse painting.

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