This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

Make this door curtain to brighten up your home and learn colors and patterns.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

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

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

This fragrant drawer sachet keeps clothes smelling sweet, and makes for the perfect gift.

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

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

These paper pumpkins will make lovely, festive centerpieces in your home this fall.

Add an ancient protective tool to your child's dress-up chest: the Viking shield!

Create a piece of public art on a movable wall. This scrap paper mosaic is made on a board that can be displayed just about anywhere.

It's Thanksgiving, so why not celebrate of the turkey? Let the little ones partake in the turkey fun, without having to do any of the carving.

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

Your preschooler or kindergartener will learn about Thanksgiving and the symbolic Fall cornucopia with this festive homemade decoration activity!

Get oodles of noodles this year, not for dinner, but to create this funky ornament for the Christmas tree!

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

Introduce your fifth grader to the irresistible fun of string art with this letter project!

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Create a haunted house from upcycled materials in this lively craft project!

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!