Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

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!

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

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

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

Make a colorful rock mosaic that will help your child practice her patterns, shapes, and colors while making a beautiful work of art!

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!

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

Cookie cutters aren't just for gingerbread men anymore. Here are 8 fun and creative projects to do with cookie-cutters!

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

Call in your crafty kids to help make this homemade air freshener, perfect for stowing in the backseat to keep your ride smelling fresh and clean.

Craft a sparkling magic wand and let your child pretend she's a fairy, wizard, or magician!

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Whether it's a bag lunch, goody bag, or used to decorate a table, this cute little fox bag is sure to make your kid smile.

There are a lot of ways to make decorative wreaths. This wreath uses cloth and egg carton flowers!

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

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

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!