Arts and Crafts

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.

Tie a string around a block, and have your preschoolers make prints with this homemade stamp!

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

This easy-to-make bird feeder requires only peanut butter, a pinecone, and some bird seed.

Follow these easy instructions to make a bowl from ordinary newspaper. Then let your child decorate it!

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

Use these recipes to make decorative materials for use in various arts and crafts projects.