If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

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

These hanging carrots will help the Easter bunny find your house and celebrate a brightly colored food that is a healthy treat for bunnies and kids alike.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Stir up some friendly competition with this tabletop bow and arrow craft!

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Get your kids drinking more water by inspiring them to design their own personalized water bottle cozy.

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!

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

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

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Have your child imitate the masters or create her own work of art with a bar of soap!

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

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

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.

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

Wishing for snow? If the weather refuses to cooperate, take charge and make your own snow in this fun painting activity!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Halloween spider decorations give your house a creepy vibe on All Hallow's Eve. Make these Halloween spider decorations with your kids this October.

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