Our kids' art projects make it easy for children to create beautiful crafts all by themselves.

Here's a simple way for kids to store their collections: Accordion-fold a strip of paper, and glue the first and last pages to the inside of a box's lid and bottom. Keep some pages empty so the collection can grow.

On rainy days, let your children play Picasso by painting a fanciful pattern on a child-size umbrella.

Kids don't need fancy tools or techniques to put their stamp on a T-shirt; a potato will get the job done.

With an illustration of a skeleton as a guide, kids just need lots of dried pasta, white glue, and construction paper to assemble the pictures. We snapped some of the pasta in half and used alphabet-soup noodles to make labels.

Kids can decorate pencils by winding extra-thin tape around a plain pencil, painting it, and then unwrapping the tape.

With rocks, glue, and paint, kids can create a collection of all their favorite animals.

These frames are a fun and easy craft for kids to make in groups at parties.

Take photos of guests with an instant camera. Kids can mat them to precut card-stock squares and then embellish the borders. Add self-adhesive magnets to the back for hanging on the fridge.

Kids can make a jungle by adding animal images out of magazines, rocks, grass, and sticks to a box.

Since it doesn't require thumbtacks, this easy bulletin board won't damage kids' favorite pictures.

Stretch extra-large colored rubber bands lengthwise and widthwise over a 1-foot-square piece of corkboard painted with acrylic paint, making sure the rubber bands go over and under one another at intervals.

With a couple of household items, kids can make their very own piggy bank.

Kids will love conceiving an ocean diorama that uses shells, toy birds, maps, and sand.

Set an intact pumpkin atop a clear, candy-filled container, then give kids an assortment of candy for decorating. This character sports pearly white mini marshmallows for teeth, a construction paper hat with a hole cut out for the stem, and black licorice eyes.

Children can personalize picture frames to give as gifts using craft punches, cardboard, and adhesive ribbon.

Kids can give their plain sneakers a makeover with this charming project.

Kids will enjoy stamping apples dipped in candy-colored paint onto otherwise ordinary canvas tote bags and backpacks.

Young crafters will love making a small-scale version of the traditional Chinese paper dragon with chopsticks and decorative paper. These puppets are easy to make and even more fun to play with.

Kids will have a fiesta just making this pinata using papier-mache.

Give old cards more hang time by making a garland of disks cut from them.

Use craft punches (or trace a round object and cut out). Attach to heavy thread with sticks; rub with craft stick to secure.

Kids can help bring a sparkle to the house with these glittered pumpkins that will last for months.

With a medium-size paintbrush, spread a layer of white glue over the surface of a small pumpkin. Hold the pumpkin over a paper plate or a sheet of newspaper to catch excess glitter. Sprinkle powdery glitter over pumpkin in several colors (we used penny, persimmon, orange, and pink champagne), covering completely. Let dry for about an hour; shake off excess glitter. Coat stem with brown acrylic paint; let dry.

Filled with souvenirs collected on trips and pictures developed afterward, vacation memory jars are like little worlds that can be visited again and again. Kids can add to them or rearrange them anytime they like. Bent wire can be used to lower and position objects in a thin-necked jar.

Children can create beautiful cards to send to friends and family with this simple craft-punch process.