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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

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

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

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

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

Help your preschooler practice tying knots and bows by making a chain of chocolate kisses in this sweet Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity.

This dreidel ornament makes a sparkling spinning top out of popsicle sticks. Make this dreidel ornament and get ready for Hanukkah.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

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!

Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

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.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Tic-tac-toe is tons of fun, but the traditional version can get a little monotonous after a while. Mix it up and try this colorful outdoor version!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.