An award-winning app, courtesy of the folks behind Khan Academy, Draw and Tell boasts a whole bunch of digital tools—crayons, paint brushes, stencils stickers and more—that encourage kids to ...

Among some of the best indoor activities for kids are drawing and coloring. Filling in a coloring book is completely soothing and can relax your kids (and you!), but there's something about drawing ...

Aaron Zenz is an author and illustrator who creates his own versions of kids' monster drawings. He enjoys creating "fan art" and encouraging creativity. He's made over 300 illustrations so far. Some ...

Shelter in place was tough for my family. It didn't start out so badly, but soon enough we went from an abundance of positivity to almost none at all. After the novelty wore off, distance learning ...

The best adults are experts at feigning excitement over a toddler’s drawings. Kind, loving grown-ups know how to make a big deal about a tyke’s art so that children think they’ve made something ...

“Ik ben ik”—I am me—was the classroom theme when my son started preschool in the Netherlands two years ago. He painted a portrait of himself, with exaggerated teeth only on the bottom row and three ...

If your child loves to scribble with crayons and make a mess out of crafting supplies at home, help them focus their creative energy by enrolling them in an art class. We rounded up some of the best ...

Kalie Mapp Hayes, a nine-year-old bilingual artist and author of 'Kalie's Magical Crown,' holds weekly art therapy classes in ...

Joanna Carden and her daughter Emma have made several stops at a small wooden box in their Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The box looks like the Free Little Libraries that have become ...

Grace, aged nine, Belfast, UK Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is ...