Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Plastic pipes and pipe connectors make a quick and fun activity for preschoolers. Try some of our pipe challenges!

Practice color combinations with a learning tool that looks amazing — and delicious!

Coil your daughter's two favorite colors into a wearable pendant with just a few scraps of felt!

Celebrate Veterans Day with your child by helping them create and send a well-deserving veteran a "thank you" card via the U.S. Veteran's Affairs Department.

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

All it takes is some colored felt fabric, a needle, thread, and a few beads and your daughter can make decorative felt pinwheels!

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler create her own window mural with simple tempera paints and paintbrushes.

Have your kid create DIY abstract art Easter decorations worthy of a spot at the Smithsonian!

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Turn your home into a public art space by trying your hand at creating your own removable wall mural.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Make cupid's arrow with your little one this Valentine's Day. It's a quick and easy craft that's the perfect alternative to candy-giving.

In this pretend play activity, your child will get to design a custom superhero utility belt and invent a new superhero to go with it!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Make your own ribbon to give gifts that special touch. Enlist your preschooler or kindergartener to help create an extra special holiday ribbon this winter.

Show your child how to "recycle" by making a milk box toy car. Here's how to get started.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.