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

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

If your mom loves gardening and plants, make her a Mother's Day garden decoration perfect for displaying in her yard!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Celebrate Dad with this decorative stepping stone for your garden!

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.

Enchant your garden with flower fairies and let their beauty bloom with this charming fairy craft.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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

Your child will have loads of fun creating this decorative basket and filling it with a secret gift or goodie before sharing with a friend or family member.

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.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Try this preschool arts and crafts activity: make an over-sized stuffed plaything out of butcher paper and wadded-up newspaper.

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

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.

Re-use old plastic food containers to create these uniquely beautiful stepping stones to embed in your backyard!

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!

Forget toy stores! Show your first or second grader how to make a vehicle out of fruit from a neighbor's tree or local farmers' market.

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.

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!