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Celebrate the 100th Day of School by making an amazing sculpture using recycled materials.

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Your kindergartener will love this counting activity on a rainy day. Turn any indoor space into a colorful hopscotch board and using simple recycled materials.

Your child can celebrate Mexican culture by making his very own percussion instrument using simple materials such as paper plates and tissue paper.

This year on Dad's day, here's a creative gift that your child can make using simple materials, some of them even recycled.

In this arts and crafts activity, help your preschooler make metal cloth embroidery art using only a metal screen, yarn, and other materials!

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

Create a beautiful piece of art to celebrate Hanukkah! Using easy to find materials, your child will create a one of a kind suncatcher great for decoration or even a gift to family and friends!

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

A serape is a long, blanket-like shawl worn over the shoulders. With a few simple materials, your child can fashion his very own serape!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

In this easy and fun animal craft, make a cute pig nose using recycled egg cartons!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.