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Does your child long to be the next Captain Hook? This great craft activity will provide an invaluable accessory for any costume box: a pirate hook!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

This fragrant drawer sachet keeps clothes smelling sweet, and makes for the perfect gift.

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

Here's an activity that has your teenager or child upcycling empty cereal boxes to create a handy, one-of-a-kind notebook holder to keep her space organized.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Make a special card with a surprise that jumps out! Simple and inexpensive, it's a snap for little hands to make.

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

Want to reinforce new middle school math terms (variables, equations), while helping your child solve simple one and two-step equations?

Looking for a healthy alternative for your preschoolerâs next birthday bonanza? Try out this surprisingly nutritious and wonderfully delicious dessert pizza!

Let your preschooler feel like a real chef by helping him create his very own chef's hat!

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler create her own window mural with simple tempera paints and paintbrushes.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your child and teach her about Mexican heritage with this fun arts and crafts activity.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

Explore the changing seasons with your preschooler by helping her create a cork-stamped masterpiece.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!