Arts & Crafts

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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 child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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.

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.

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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.

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

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.

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

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.