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!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

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

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

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

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

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Who needs a plastic potato head when you can use the real thing?

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

Your child can easily create a ghoulishy adorable bat treat keeper. Crafting this funny fella is a great way to introduce the basic components of sculpture.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Make a paper plate puppet that'll help your child imagine what it's like to be in a performance of the dragon dance.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

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

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

Make your own architectural masterpiece with supplies from the pantry. Your temple may not be as impressive as the real thing, but it'll be twice as delicious!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Learn about construction while making a fun new toy, the Mini-Marshmallow Popper.