A little bit of wood and markers and you have beautiful art

Here is a cheap but fun project for the kids, you can get them about anywhere.  I got these at Dollar Tree and it comes with 3 markers.  The middle one a 1 1/2 year old colored and only used the kid markers it came with.  But the frog and monkey my 8 and 9 year old colored and I let them use permanent markers so the would have more choices and I knew that they wouldn't mark on anything else.  So the price of all 3 of these were $ 3.15.  For that you just created a memory with you kids, made them happy and had fun with them.  Crafts don't have to be expensive just little things to enjoy with them :)