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Celebrate the 100th Day of School by making an amazing sculpture using recycled materials.

Here's an arts and crafts activity: get your middle school or high school student to make rolled up, bubble wrap candles of wax for a unique accessory or gift!

Your high school grad is sure to appreciate the message of this personal, one of a kind graduation gift as he takes his first tentative steps into adulthood.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

The start of a new school year is always a great time to decorate a locker. Here's a way to help your middle schooler get off to an organized, stylish start!

Help your fifth grader or middle school teenager transform spice tins into fridge magnets and pencil holders in this arts and crafts activity.

Get kids excited about gathering their school supplies by teaching them how to make their own writing supplies!

This colorful caterpillar attaches itself to pencil holders and guards your school supplies!

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

Creepy, crawly, spooky and even kind of cute! This spider loves school supplies and will do a great job guarding them.

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Kids grow grass in homemade eggshell planters in this unique middle school arts and crafts activity. Makes a great gift for Easter.

Guide your middle schooler through making his own papier-maché witch or wizard puppet. Move over Harry Potter!

Create a beautiful pop-up paper lantern and will serve as the perfect decoration at your next party.

Check out this activity that has your kid create her own Cubist montage. Soon your kid will be well on her way to understanding the vibrant art of Cubism!

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

Go green and make a stylish tote bag out of a T-shirt.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

Here's a fun arts and crafts activity that has you and your child creating a book with a secret hollow!

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.