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.

Make some beautiful and unique candles to light your home.

Create some flying bats with your little one this Halloween season. This activity is a great way for your little one to learn about symmetry.

Help your child create a mosaic mirror frame that's a bit modern and a bit vintage at the same time. All she needs are a dollar store frame and an old CD!

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

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!

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.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

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.

This marshmallow snowman craft is a festive way for your child to practice counting and art. Make a marshmallow snowman with your child this holiday season.

Creating a cloud of bats is a great way for your child to get familiar with the process of folding and cutting. They also make great Halloween decorations!

Get in the Halloween spirit with these simple, silly bat decorations!

Beaded Christmas ornaments add some homemade cheer to your tree. Make these beaded Christmas ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Hop over to the craft table and make this easy bunny puppet!

This goofy pasta clown sculpture will help your child develop his small muscle skills and think creatively while decking it out with a colorful circus outfit.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Assist your kindergartener in constructing his own shy little magic turtle out of just a plastic cup, tube sock, and wooden dowel.

Make a flowerpot recipe holder for a great kitchen gadget that makes cooking easy as pie.

Guide your middle schooler through making his own papier-maché witch or wizard puppet. Move over Harry Potter!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Guide your preschooler through making a handmade bug valentine for a loved one; it's an adorable way to say, "I love you."

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

This Christmas gnome hails from Scandinavia. A Christmas gnome, also known as a nisse, gives gifts on Christmas.