Want to add some extra pizazz to dress up play? Help your child craft a personalized purse out of an old gift or shopping bag!

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Make a homemade expressionist masterpiece using dough and paint! Practice brainstorming skills with this fun and easy arts and crafts activity.

When your child is crossing streets in the dark, visibility is key. Once he's picked out a costume, make fun and festive neon accents to add to his outfit.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

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

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

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, 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!

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

This homemade snow globe is fun for kids who are excited about the arrival of winter. Kids can complete this snow globe craft quickly and easily.

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

Kids will have a hoot constructing this cute owl craft from a recycled toilet paper roll.

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

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key kindergarten math skill.

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

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.