Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

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

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

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

With this activity, your child can learn about how molecules join together and make a pretty decoration to hang around the house. Here's how:

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Give your number one dad something that he truly deserves this Father's Day!

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

Try this preschool arts and crafts activity: make an over-sized stuffed plaything out of butcher paper and wadded-up newspaper.

Your third grader will love both recreating and dressing up as his favorite reptile with this frightening crocodile jaw costume!

Make a Halloween pumpkin this October! A Halloween pumpkin character is a safe Jack-o'-lantern carving alternative for young children.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler or kindergartener create his own set of building blocks to create her dream house and buildings.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.