Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

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

Celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, by helping your child to create a papier mache shofar.

Pumpkins sure look adorable when bundled up in hats and cozy scarves!

Guide your middle schooler through making his own papier-maché witch or wizard puppet. Move over Harry Potter!

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Enjoy the beach all year long with this fun activity that uses sand, seashells, and a shoebox to create a mini beach right in your house!

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

Yarn ornaments are a beautiful and crafty way to celebrate the holidays. Make a set of yarn ornaments with your child, then hang them on your Christmas tree.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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

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!

Make your own play dough at home with a fruity scent using this easy activity!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

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.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

This hanging wall pot made from homemade clay is a perfect arts and crafts activity for preschoolers.

This activity encourages self-expression. When your child is finished she will have created a personalized pin to wear or give as a gift!

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

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Here's a fun arts and crafts activity that has you and your child creating a book with a secret hollow!

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

These papier-mâché bracelets are simple to make, and the result is truly stunning!

Home made candles make for great home made gifts at Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays. Great presents for any special occasion!

This papier-mâché snowman is a unique winter craft for kids. Use this papier-mâché snowman to show your child the wonders of this three-dimensional art form.

Add a little sparkle and shine to your Christmas or Easter decorations: make a charming blown egg ornament in this fourth grade arts and crafts activity.

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.