Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!

Kids grow grass in homemade eggshell planters in this unique middle school arts and crafts activity. Makes a great gift for Easter.

This clay doesn't need to go into the oven. Brew up a batch, let your child shape it, and dry overnight. By morning, it's ready for paint. Perfect for holidays!

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.

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

Make your very own fortune cookies from paper and share good fortunes with family and friends.

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!

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

Your preschooler or kindergartener will learn about Thanksgiving and the symbolic Fall cornucopia with this festive homemade decoration activity!

Creepy, crawly, spooky and even kind of cute! This spider loves school supplies and will do a great job guarding them.

Make a seashell wind chime for your back porch. Perfect for younger kids to build motor skills on.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your budding artist: make a fitted paper-mache mask. Once it's complete you can use it in a play or hang it as art!

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!

There's something magical about bubbles. Here's a way to turn an old favorite into something new, by ditching that plastic wand for a homemade bubble pipe.

Keep your child active this summer by transforming old milk jugs into scoops and newspaper into a ball with this exciting game of catch!

This colorful caterpillar attaches itself to pencil holders and guards your school supplies!

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

Create an bouquet of flowers that will last forever using plastic straws and tissue paper!

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Get kids excited about gathering their school supplies by teaching them how to make their own writing supplies!

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Spider crafts help your child get into the Halloween spirit! Make our spider craft, featuring a spider and its web, this October to decorate for Halloween.

If your mom loves gardening and plants, make her a Mother's Day garden decoration perfect for displaying in her yard!