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Arts and crafts are great for learners of all ages. From kindergarten paper plate tambourines to year six homemade thermometers, the Education.com arts and crafts activities below will keep studentsâ€™ learning fun and engaged. With a wide range of DIY, decorative, and scientific arts and crafts activities below, your arts and crafts classroom ideas list will never be empty again.

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Make an Alphabet Memory Game

This kindergarten activity allows you and your child to make your very own alphabet matching game. Your child will develop his memory and practise letter sounds.

Christmas Tree Counting

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's maths skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

Handprint Turkey

Make a handprint turkey with your child to celebrate Thanksgiving. A handprint turkey makes a great base for Thanksgiving coasters, note cards, or place cards.

Make a Thanksgiving Cornucopia

Your preschooler or kindergartener will learn about Thanksgiving and the symbolic Fall cornucopia with this festive homemade decoration activity!

Make Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practise patterning and fine motor skills.

Make a Festive Holiday Garland

Make a festive holiday garland with your preschooler or kindergartener to practise making patterns with household items! This activity is a decorating classic.

Oh Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

Get your preschooler or kindergartener into the holiday spirit by making a holiday instrument that will improve his fine motor skills and sense of rhythm.

Make a Thanksgiving Thank You Apron

Help your child celebrate your family's Thanksgiving cook with this year two arts and crafts activity: make a "handy" painted apron!

Native American Corn Husk Dolls

Make corn husk dolls similar to the ones Pilgrims made in the 17th century. Corn Husk Dolls are fun to make and play with, especially on Thanksgiving.

Homemade Christmas Crackers

Homemade Christmas crackers add some bang to your holiday celebration. Make a set of homemade Christmas crackers with your child this holiday season.

Baby Food Jar Candles

Recycle a baby jar to make this beautiful votive with your second grader! This arts and crafts project is a fun, colorful activity and makes a great gift.

If your child is particularly handy or artistic, she'll love putting her talents toward making a custom key holder. It's the perfect gift for any occasion.

Recycle your child's beloved old t-shirt by sewing it into a pillow! The results of activity are unique, decorative, creative, and never wasteful.

Silhouette Pillow

Make a personalized pillowcase for your third grader with his old-fashioned silhouette image. You won't be able to find these in stores!

Here's a great homemade card idea that supports fine motor skills and creativity in addition to introducing your child to the art of quilling.

Relief Sculpture: Fall Leaves

This fun arts and crafts activity will help your child learn about the colors of the different seasons through the art of relief sculpture.

Fingerprint Fall Trees

Celebrate the changing seasons with this fun, hands-on art activity that will teach your child about the different colors of the seasons.

Make Spooky Bat Wings

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Autumn Sketchbook

This will encourage your child to utilize her observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Make Corn Print Patterns!

Try this fun, fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach her some basic art principles about colour, pattern and texture.

Make a Monster Hand Print

This activity will encourage your child to discover the scientific process, compare sizes shapes, and build shape recognition skills.

How to Make a Trick-or-Treat Bag

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

"G" is for Ghost!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Make a clay sculpture of a fall tree to celebrate the changing seasons and bring out the artist in your third grader.

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