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

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

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.

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

Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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!

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.

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

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!

Help your preschooler make an alternative to carrying messy sidewalk chalk in hand: a helpful, handmade sidewalk chalk caddy.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a water bottle.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Make a colorful rock mosaic that will help your child practice her patterns, shapes, and colors while making a beautiful work of art!

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.

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.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!