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Help your preschooler make an alternative to carrying messy sidewalk chalk in hand: a helpful, handmade sidewalk chalk caddy.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

This paper mache snowman is a unique winter craft for kids. Use this paper mache snowman to show your child the wonders of this three-dimensional art form.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Can you imagine a sky filled with bright, colorful bubbles? Make this whimsical scene come alive with bubble science!

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

An home science experiment for older students that teaches about the science behind heat.

Help your kindergartener's handwriting, hand strength and coordination by making a "stress ball" from this homemade, nontoxic "silly squeezy putty."

Candy cane cookies are a great alternative to traditional candy canes, and your family will have a blast making them over the holidays!

In this science fair project, students will create a model of a shoreline, observe erosion and examine how jetties prevent erosion.

Make a paper plate puppet that'll help your child imagine what it's like to be in a performance of the dragon dance.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!