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 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!

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

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

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.

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

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.

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.

Does your child long to be the next Captain Hook? This great craft activity will provide an invaluable accessory for any costume box: a pirate hook!

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

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

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

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

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.

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

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.

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

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.