I came across a really neat website the other day that takes stories for children and combines an art project with the story.  I thought this would be a lot of fun for my 4 year old, but when we do projects here all my kids want to join in regardless of how elementary it seems.  We happened to have a copy of Eric Carle's A House For Hermit Crab.  We read the story and then did the art project we found here.