Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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

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

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

Help your preschooler practice tying knots and bows by making a chain of chocolate kisses in this sweet Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity.

This dreidel ornament makes a sparkling spinning top out of popsicle sticks. Make this dreidel ornament and get ready for Hanukkah.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

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.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

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

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

Tic-tac-toe is tons of fun, but the traditional version can get a little monotonous after a while. Mix it up and try this colorful outdoor version!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

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

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

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

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

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.