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

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

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Want to make your own version of the Hollywood walk of fame in your own garden? Immortalize your child's handiwork by creating a cement handprint craft.

Wondering what to do with all that extra mint leftover from last night's meal? Don't throw it out--make tea instead. It's easy to dry fresh herbs for tea.

This simple illuminaria can be made for any season or holiday. It's so fun that parents and kids alike will enjoy making a new one for each special holiday!

Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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

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

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!

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

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

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

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

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

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

Make a Star of David ornament with your child this holiday season. This Star of David ornament is a beautiful and inexpensive homemade gift for Hanukkah.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Show your kids how to take recycling to new heights by creating a papier maché pencil holder out of old newspaper and wallpaper paste.

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...