Arts & Crafts

Make a color coded "mood meter" with your kindergartener to help her recognize and tell her feelings while building reading and writing skills.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Teach the kids how a bird's nest is made by making your own nests using only natural materials!

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your preschool child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its giant tentacles!

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to complement what he's learning about this instrument in school.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your first grader.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Help your preschooler begin reading and writing the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with this easy art project: alphabet trees!

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't - a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.