This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Have your child experiment with layering by creating a feathered friend to celebrate warmer weather.

No need to head to the toy store for her next stuffed animal once she has the skills to create her own!

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Your first grader will enjoy creating his own leprechaun from a recycled toilet paper tube.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Thiscuddly stuffed animal is made from just a few materials, including your recycled stockings.

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

Let your child's imagination run wild with this creative third grade arts and crafts activity: make a fanciful costume out of a cardboard box.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

This Halloween, have your child create a ghoulish bat treat keeper. While crafting he'll learn the basic components of sculpture.

Your child can easily create a ghoulishy adorable bat treat keeper. Crafting this funny fella is a great way to introduce the basic components of sculpture.

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

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

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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!

Discover what makes an alligator an alligator with this adorable and affordable alligator craft.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.