Want to add some extra pizazz to dress up play? Help your child craft a personalized purse out of an old gift or shopping bag!

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

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

When your child is crossing streets in the dark, visibility is key. Once he's picked out a costume, make fun and festive neon accents to add to his outfit.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

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

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Kids will have a hoot constructing this cute owl craft from a recycled toilet paper roll.

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!

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

Get kids excited about gathering their school supplies by teaching them how to make their own writing supplies!

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

This creative art project lets kids explore the wonder of sea creatures while putting their ingenuity and problem solving skills to use.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

Make a seashell wind chime for your back porch. Perfect for younger kids to build motor skills on.

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Here, kids can make edible collages out of cookies and candy. Colorful, creative, and delicious, they make great gifts for sweet-toothed family and friends.

Kids can enjoy the fun of tap shoes without the expense by turning bottle caps and string into removable taps. Strap them on and cut a rug.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.