Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

These papier-mâché bracelets are simple to make, and the result is truly stunning!

Stringing beads helps develop the hand-eye coordination kids need to write, and noodles are sized just right for junior jewelry-makers.

Etch designs into discs of plaster of Paris using a traditional whaler technique to create a beautiful artisan necklace.

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key kindergarten math skill.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.