Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Add an ancient protective tool to your child's dress-up chest: the Viking shield!

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

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

How goofy can your first grader get? Show her how to use balloons and yarn to craft a collection of silly faces!

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

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

Show your kids how to take recycling to new heights by creating a papier maché pencil holder out of old newspaper and wallpaper paste.

In this arts and crafts activity, help your preschooler make metal cloth embroidery art using only a metal screen, yarn, and other materials!

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

Is your child an amateur origami master? Reach the next stage of paper folding genius with this origami heart!

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Does your child dream of walking among the dinosaurs? Now he can get a little closer to his dream...with a pair of homemade dinosaur feet!

Show your fourth grader how to use sequins to create a gorgeous, gold-plated Easter egg.

Santa needs all the helpers he can get, so why not create your very own holiday elf to watch over your presents.

Got a fussy eater on your hands? Here's a great way to make fruit appear more appealing, and make eating it a lot more fun, too!

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

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

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.