Recycle materials found in your home to make trendy curtains for your child's bedroom. An old puzzle and some string is the perfect place to start.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

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!

This shamrock magnet is the perfect project for St. Patrick's Day. It's simple to make and will fill your refrigerator with Irish spirit!

Create a beautiful pop-up paper lantern and will serve as the perfect decoration at your next party.

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

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.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Celebrate the sweeter side of the holidays with this charming mouse ornament!

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

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

Use a chunk of Styrofoam and some golf tees to make a safe and quiet tool bench for the kids.

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

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

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

Your child can build the home of her dreams by creating a truly imaginative model. She'll get to draft her own blueprints to design her masterpiece!

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

Show your teen how to live green by transforming old CD cases into drawer dividers and help her get organized in the process.

This goofy pasta clown sculpture will help your child develop his small muscle skills and think creatively while decking it out with a colorful circus outfit.

Is your princess missing a crown? Look no further: grab a few sparkly pipe cleaners and twist for a crown that's half jewelry, half sculpture, and 100% shine.

Here's a fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make homemade clay bead jewelry. All you need is flour, cornstarch, and salt to get started.