• Kite-making is an excellent design idea for teaching kids about gravity.kite image by Ivonne Wierink from Fotolia.com
  
  There are many different ways to occupy children with fun arts and craft projects in which they are given the freedom to be creative and productive. With the right ideas and active imagination, you can show your students how to create a special piece of artwork that will give them a sense of pride and accomplishment. The goal for finding an experimental art project is to find something both functional for teaching purposes and enjoyable for the kids to complete.
  
  

Clasroom Decorations

• Decorating the classroom is a great way for kids to learn via provided educational, artistic mediums and projects. Get your kids involved in the classroom by giving each of them a few 1-inch wide pieces of construction paper and have them decorate the strips using colors, shapes and letters. You would then collect all of the decorated strips and "link" them together using glue. Once you have completed a chain, you hang it around the outer edge of the room.
  
  

Pencil Pots

• This project serves as a great way for kids to keep track of their writing utensils throughout the school season, all the while getting to work together and utilize their creative thinking skills. The concept and process are both relatively simple. Have your children bring an empty milk carton in from home. Take the milk carton and cut the top off. Then, using magazine cutouts, construction paper, coloring utensils and glue, the kids can decorate the milk carton how they like. Completed pencil pots can be placed right on their desks throughout the year and can hold their pencils and other stationery items.
  
  

Kites

• Teach your kids the fundamentals of lift, drag and gravity with a fun kite-making experiment/project. You can have your kids make kites out of old paper grocery bags. Have them decorate the surface of the bags using crayons, markers, stickers or paints, such as acrylic and watercolor. You can also take strips of tissue paper and glue them at the bottom of the paper bag as kite tails. To prepare the kite for flight, you then must poke four holes at each corner of the top of the bag and tie durable 30-inch strings through each hole.