This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Here's a springtime arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: make batik Easter eggs using melted candle wax and homemade dye.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

In this playful preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom-poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

This paper alternative to tie-dye is faster, easier, and (slightly) less messy, only requiring paper, white crayons, and a little imagination.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

Tackle both boredom and mathematics with this inventive arts and craft project!

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

This simple and seasonal kid activity turns glue and food coloring into beautiful autumn leaves that will last forever.

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Reuse beloved old Christmas cards by filling them with candies and toys, and turn them into something to enjoy for years.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Encourage a bit of mystery and intrigue by teaching your clever kid how to create and use secret codes.

In this arts and crafts activity, help your kindergartener make friendship bracelets with just safety pins, elastic, and some colorful beads.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

This activity will give your child a chance to practice threading a needle, and she'll end up with a fun and unique hair band!

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

Help your preschooler create beautifully designed and textured Easter eggs using only brown and purple onion skins for a result that's just to 'dye' for!

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Make this door curtain to brighten up your home and learn colors and patterns.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.