Show your child how to make homemade wrapping paper with a twist by using sponge art to create the fabulous designs. Here's how:

Show your high school-aged child an offbeat way to let her friends know their future includes a party: fortune cookie cards!

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

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

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

Your kindergartener will love being able to paint a beautiful butterfly, and the lucky recipient of the finished card will be just as delighted!

Play a sing-a-long Bingo game with your kindergartener's favorite songs to help her build her concentration and memory skills while she has fun!

Help your crafty kid make rocket-shaped party favors to hand out to friends and family on Independence Day!

Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Looking for a fun way to display photos? Give recycled objects a second life by turning them into a creative photo holder.

This recycled craft makes a great addition to the dress-up box and is a two-in-one activity and party favor for princess-themed birthday parties.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

This colorful cupcake craft is a great party activity. What's more, it can also be a good way to help you keep track of kid's birthdays.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschooler: make pendulum paintings using only a funnel, canvas, and paint!

Celebrate the gooey goodness of peanut butter with a yummy treat your young chef can whip together himself.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Who says a party can't be productive? Next time your home is host to a hoard of giggling children, put those creative fingers to use with a party scrapbook!