Make endless faces with a few simple paper shapes! This creative activity is a wonderful art exploration project for kids.

Create your own DIY Kids mixed media art challenge with our free printable art medium stickers and challenge collection sheet.

Make your own set of DIY scribble dice for a virtually prep-free kids' art invitation! A fun way for kids to explore mark-making, patterns, and color.

This easy leaf scavenger hunt requires almost no prep and is the perfect on-the-go activity for kids' outdoor play and nature exploration!

Help kids investigate and explore how natural supplies interact with other objects throughout the seasons with these loose parts leaf play invitation ideas.

Our favorite kids art projects to help budding artists of all ages and interest levels discover new art mediums and ways to use basic art supplies.

This quick and colorful DIY felt four seasons tree is a wonderful tool to help preschoolers practice counting sorting, colors, seasons, and more!

Helpful online resources to help you celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with kids through art, crafts, learning, play, music, free printables, and more! | from barley & birch

Our favorite modern picture books and free printable mini-book - the perfect activity to get kids excited for a trip to the library!

A collection of our very favorite kids' kitchen tools for kitchen learning, cooking play, and practical skill development.

These interactive kid-made collages are a fun art project and map exercise that turns into a nontraditional scavenger hunt for learning through play!

Help your kids develop practical life skills through hands-on kitchen play and learning activities (with free printable templates).

This DIY foldout cardboard city landscape book is an artful lesson in perspective and reusable backdrop for imaginative play all in one!

This fun and easy kids activity doesn't take any preparation, is simple enough for kids of any age and is a great lesson in art and design composition!

A list of over 60 favorite childhood books you may have forgotten but will still adore (along with wonderful current reading resources for kids).

Make your old crayons into lovely melted crayon art and discover other activities for repurposing old broken crayons!

Whether you have a future foodie or budding baker, you're sure to find a good gift in this collection of our favorite kids cookbooks!

Our favorite creative, modern magazines for kids of all ages interested in art, cooking, news, science, writing, reading and fun!

Make your own adorable miniature food truck with cardboard, paper, and recycled bits and pieces - a creative kids' art project.

100 of our favorite kids picture books about art and artists!

This simple DIY colored rice is easy to make and the perfect tool for sensory play or practical skill learning! Learn our color and taste-safe secrets!

Take a trip down memory lane with a wicked week of 80s activities including DIY games, rad retro art crafts, classic 80s-inspired recipes, and more!

Use flour and oil to make this easy DIY moon sand for a beachy summer sensory play experience your kids will love!

Our fizzing, low-sugar Pop Rocks Punch recipe is fun for kids and perfect for parties with free '80s-themed drinking straw printables.

Make DIY tarot cards for kids with printables or hand-drawn designs! Encourage optimism, creativity & storytelling through fun fortune-telling games.

Discover simple ways to create stunning mixed media art with kids using everyday supplies, classic mark-making tools, and a few basic rules.

This easy postcard art project for kids is packed with creativity and charm! Kids can draw their own postcards - for play or to mail to friends.

Explore fun, educational playdough turtle invitations for kids that boost creativity, empathy, and problem-solving skills through hands-on play.

This adorable set of recycled cardboard play food is an easy DIY, perfect for dramatic play, a great way for kids to learn about food (with printable play market food templates available).

Our DIY paper-mâché food-on-a-stick art project is a fun way for kids to experiment with new supplies and processes as they come up with their own imaginative faux fair foods!

These fun and easy beginner origami projects are a perfect way to introuduce your kids to the beautiful and fun art of paper folding!

Kids will have a total blast crafting their own rad 80's-inspired sunglasses out of a recycled cereal box and paint (with three eighties-style sunglasses templates available).

Happy Pride Month! Are you getting ready to head to the nearest Pride parade? Hold on, I have just the accessory to help you jingle all the way there...! Don't just SHOW your support -

Find your zen and a new way to relax by making your own meditative scribble art collages for stress relief.

This DIY soft village playset is a sewing and art project kids can participate in making, then use for creative small world play (with mountain, tree, and house sewing templates avaialble).

This collection of DIY 80s games is guaranteed throwback fun for the whole family and perfect for a party or movie night!

Helpful online resources for celebrating Disability Pride Month through children’s art, crafts, reading, music, and more.

A collection of our favorite ocean-themed creative projects for kids - from arts and crafts, to sensory and small world play.

Upcycle an old box and some scrap paper into mix & match pattern modern cardboard necklaces - an easy recycled craft for kids.

Juneteenth is a time to gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future. Discover ways to celebrate this African American cultural tradition of music, food and freedom.

Use this free printable beach scavenger hunt for summer vacations to the ocean or seaside. A fun summer activity and beach game for kids!

Our kid-friendly sparkless DIY sparklers are a fun summer craft kids can make themselves for the Fourth of July, children's parties, or other festive occasions.

This sweet and simple DIY ice pack or hot pack cover will turn bump and scrape frowns upside down (with ice pack cover and mini bandaid plush toy templates available).

Create clever city scenes (and clever illusions!) with this night-in-the-city paper art project that encourages kids to play with perception and look at their artwork from every angle.

This collection of over 40 functional kids art projects encourages little ones to create hands-on art they can play with and use in everyday life.

Explore movement and composition with this simple (moving!) paper shape art project for kids.

Perfect for waiting in an office, inside on a rainy day, or on a road trip, these zero-prep kids games and activities don't require any supplies at all!