Get your preschooler or kindergartener into the holiday spirit by making a holiday instrument that will improve his fine motor skills and sense of rhythm.

Make a festive holiday garland with your preschooler or kindergartener to practice making patterns with household items! This activity is a decorating classic.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

Explore measurement with your second grader and make this terrific holiday craft.

Practice third and fourth grade measurement skills and make a practical holiday gift in the process!

This candle centerpiece will add a special holiday glow to your dinner table. Make a candle centerpiece with your child this holiday season.

This reindeer hat is cute and festive for your child during the holiday season. Make a reindeer hat this Christmas with your child.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

Your child can create a special winter headband with the help of some white felt and a length of silver ribbon.

Send big holiday love on a small budget by sending these "Elf Tickets" this year...and give your child some writing practice in the bargain.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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.

Your child can create his very own pine forest covered in snow and learn some forest vocabulary too!

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

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Cookie, snow globe or puzzle? This holiday cookie is all three! Celebrate the holidays with this puzzle cookie, a crafty twist on a delicious dessert.

This snowflake garland will bring some winter wonder to your house. Make a sparkling snowflake garland with your child this winter.

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.

Instead of piling on jackets and mittens, settle down for an afternoon of paper magic with this three-dimensional snowflake craft.

This beginner's sewing craft turns ordinary gloves into fancy fur fashion statements!