The Aztecs made stories by carving pictures into bark and leather. Make your codex by drawing a few pictures to tell your own story!

Suminagashi is a Japanese art where you create your art on water first and transfer it to paper. It is beautiful and very relaxing to...

Why not have your children help decorate for special occasions and birthday parties? I love this sweet banner made from bright colored tissue paper. Much...

Create a traditional pinata from flour paste, newspaper and paint.

Dreamcatchers are lovely charms! The net catches bad dreams...while good dreams slide down the feathers to the sleeper below.

This stunning project is also surprisingly simple to make. Himmelis are geometric mobiles that are used as Finnish Christmas decorations. Traditionally they are made...

Tanabata is a Japanese holiday that is celebrated between July and August around different parts of Japan. This holiday is based on a story...

Shall we make The Eye of Horus? Maybe a cat? How about an Ankh, or a scarab beetle??? Decorate an amulet with...

Get a taste of Russia and make some delicious Piroshki with your kids! Piroshki are basically small Russian pastries filled with finely chopped meat...

Chinese dragons!? Hooray! This was one of those projects where I had just barely showed Maddie how to begin, and she took off!...

Teach your kids about the importance of rain and the water cycle while they make these colorful, fun-to-make, rain sticks. This is a nice way...

For big festivals like the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (usually August or September) and the Lunar New Year (January or February), kids in some Asian countries...

Use a mailing tube and some acrylic paints to create these beautiful didgeridoos from Australia.

No Chinese take-out meal is complete without fortune cookies. My older kid eagerly cracks open his cookie to read the fortune--eating the cookie is a...

Madeleine wanted to make this elephant on a cloth banner, but it would look so darling on a brightly colored piece of paper!