Arts and Crafts

Roller printing is a great activity for small hands. Follow the instructions to show your child how.

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

Drawing with wet chalk makes great smooth pictures. Show your child how it's done.

These colorful pots can be used for candies or plants, and they make excellent gifts.

A sprinkling of powdered tempera paint and a sliding ice cube can make painting more fun and exciting.

Make this attractive wall-mounted holder for your child's beanbag baby animals.

Your toddler can use a rolled piece of corrugated cardboard as a stamp to create flower-like shapes.

Your child will have lots of fun waving the colors in this homemade ribbon toy.

If you and your preschool child make enough paper snowflakes, you can have a paper blizzard!

Follow the directions to make stencils for your child to use in stencil painting.

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

Silly Putty is even more fun when you and your preschooler make it from scratch!

This handy notepad holder can go on the refrigerator after your child decorates it.

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

Declaring an artist or composer of the month is a fun way to learn about the visual arts and music.

Toddlers can make their own art stamps by gluing rickrack or keys to a block of wood.

A toilet paper roll and some paper make a simple kazoo for your toddler to enjoy.

Printmaking is perfect for preschool children. It yields great results, but doesn't require a lot of hand-eye coordination.