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Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

Here's a social studies activity to help your middle-school or high-school teenager better understand how contour maps work using only the back of her hand.

Your child can create a string wrapped headband to hold her hair back during the hot summer. Plus, it will re-purpose left over bits of string and thread!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Try this fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make art by grating colored chalk over a sheet of buttermilk-painted paper. Watch as it sparkles!

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Drift away with this charming craft that lets your child create a paper hot air balloon or two.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

This year, create cute napkin rings to adorn your holiday table.

Make this fluffy, fun feather pin as a unique fashion statement or a trendy gift for a lucky recipient.

This cool physics demo illustrates the simple harmonic motion of a pendulum while teaching kids the important concepts of potential and kinetic energy.

The start of a new school year is always a great time to decorate a locker. Here's a way to help your middle schooler get off to an organized, stylish start!

Use up your leftover hardboiled Easter eggs with our healthy, gourmet variations on an old classic: deviled eggs

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Looking for a fun summer activity to capture all your vacation memories? Create a summer scrapbook with your child!

Your child can add bling to her bike with bicycle basket decorations, making her bike a stylish ride!

Embroidery ain't your grandma's art anymore...it can be adapted to a number of cool designs Jazz up a traditional fabric embellishment with sparkly beads!

This project uses toy cars to determine how friction and gravity affect cars and braking.