Upgrade your drawing skills by creating animals from basic shapes with pencils. Use circles, cylinders, and lines so all your critters come to life on the page. Make your animals look real—or totally magical—by adding fur, scales, or feathers and putting your own creative touches on each one.

Create mind-bending optical illusions using just pencil and paper. Learn how to trick the eye into seeing movement by overlapping lines and silhouettes, combining clashing vibrant colors, and varying pencil line gradation. Experiment with patterns, explore visual rhythm, and sharpen your drawing skills as you create images that leap off the page.

What’s on the menu? Your favorite foods, made from art supplies. Brainstorm breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas, then bring them to life using colored pencils, felt, fabric, and air-dry clay. Sketch tasty treats, transform drawings into soft felt creations, and sculpt realistic (but definitely not edible) foods like donuts or ramen. Wrap up by designing a placemat to display your mixed-media meal.