Let your kid try his hand at engineering as he builds and tests two different structures made out of rolled newspaper. Which one is the strongest?

Your kid and his friends will have a blast taking turns playing the role of a traffic cop in this Labor Day version of the classic game Red Light, Green Light.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

Turn ordinary cookies into puppets and create edible performance art!

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your budding artist: make a fitted paper-mache mask. Once it's complete you can use it in a play or hang it as art!

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Encourage a bit of mystery and intrigue by teaching your clever kid how to create and use secret codes.

Learn how to make a menorah with this simple Hanukkah craft. See how to make a menorah for the Festival of Lights.

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.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Help your fifth grader or middle school teenager transform spice tins into fridge magnets and pencil holders in this arts and crafts activity.

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

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

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

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

This fragrant drawer sachet keeps clothes smelling sweet, and makes for the perfect gift.

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

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

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Get ready for Thanksgiving by enlisting your child in the preparations! In this activity, you'll work together to create some adorable turkey napkin rings.