Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

Create a herd of pachyderms to parade across a dresser or tabletop and take the opportunity to teach your kid a little bit about these majestic mammals.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

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

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Don't despair if numerators and denominators seem like a bore to your child. This colorful collage is sure to show him the brighter side of fractions.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Save money by having your tween rock these homemade jeggings, a good craft for a lazy afternoon.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Explore the positive and negative shapes of a piece of fruit or a vegetable by doing a contour cut-out drawing.

Show your first grader how to create her own octopus out of yarn. This simple, yet fun, project yields an adorable play or cuddle partner.

Looking for way to help Japan? Start by making paper cranes! Learn how you and your child can show your support for Japan through the art of origami.

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Create fun and imaginative works of art by using trucks to paint on paper in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Help your kid create a patriotic red, white, and blue flag banner! On each flag have him write a different word that describes our veterans or fallen soldiers.

See what's on your child's mind in this colorful, creative exercise.

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

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year by making your very own lucky pot of (chocolate!) gold in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Fashion forward kids get a chance to unleash their inner designer by creating their own fabric-embellished shoes in this teen arts and crafts activity.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Make this cool iPod or cell phone case for Dad out of one of his little-used ties.

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.