Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Make a flowerpot recipe holder for a great kitchen gadget that makes cooking easy as pie.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

Get your preschooler to practice a steady hand and celebrate Read Across America Day with this challenging stacking activity inspired by Dr. Seuss.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

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

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

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

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

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

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.

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!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

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:

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

Get oodles of noodles this year, not for dinner, but to create this funky ornament for the Christmas tree!

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Make ghost decorations for Halloween! They're made out of paper towels and are a cinch to create!

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

This kitchen activity will engage your preschooler's senses and fine motor skills, and she'll have fun eating her unique creations when she's done!

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

This valentine bag craft makes a chic little pouch that holds cards and treats. Fall in love with this valentine bag craft this February.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.