Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

Your child may have fallen in love with certain brand-name trains, but it's just as much fun to make your own - and a whole lot cheaper. Here's how.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

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.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

Recycle all those old puzzles with missing pieces into a cute and easy puzzle piece tree.

Turn leftover puzzle pieces into a one-of-a-kind necklace that's sure to brighten any outfit.

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

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

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Recycle materials found in your home to make trendy curtains for your child's bedroom. An old puzzle and some string is the perfect place to start.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Riddles about two trains passing in the night are often featured on SAT tests. Help break these problems down into five easy steps.

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

Struggling to memorize all those SAT words? How about challenging Mom or Dad to a crossword puzzle duel?

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

The aim of this science fair project is to study the mathematical construct called magic squares and create a unique magic square puzzle.

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.