The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"

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

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.

Here's a DIY arts and crafts project that has your teen constructing a letterpress to make her own gorgeous, unique art prints!

Invite your child to partake in an eco-friendly craft by weaving long twigs into a useful kitchen stand for hot pots and pans.

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

Construct a card castle fit for a king! Treat your royal "face" cards (the kings, queens, and jacks) to the cool castle they deserve.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your budding artist: make a fitted paper-mache mask. Once it's complete you can use it in a play or hang it as art!

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

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

The pottery technique of coiling may be old, but it's probably new to your kid! Make coil pots with your preschooler throw in a little cultural lesson too!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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.

This activity will help your child develop her fine motor skills and build spatial awareness,and it's a great way to jazz up snack time!

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

This safety pin brooch is elegant and slightly edgy project for your young fashionista. It's an excellent accessory or gift.

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Beaded Christmas ornaments add some homemade cheer to your tree. Make these beaded Christmas ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

Let your kid try his hand at engineering as he builds and tests two different structures made out of rolled newspaper. Which one is the strongest?

Decorate your porch or backyard with this unique fall craft!

Re-use old plastic food containers to create these uniquely beautiful stepping stones to embed in your backyard!

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.

This easy paper craft looks like the ancient Moai sculptures of Easter Island.

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