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Make Mom a Queen For A Day crown for Mother's Day.

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Bring the Star of David symbol to life by baking and decorating festive sugar cookies for Hanukkah!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Fire up the grill, break out the raffia and get crafty with flowers--it's time to learn how to throw your own luau!

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Diwali is a holiday celebrated in many Asian Pacific countries the world over. Make this delicious Indian treat with your child to celebrate the holiday.

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

Using lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, help your child implement kindness and compassion into their interactions with others.

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

This DIY menorah will make a beautiful addition to your Hanukkah celebrations. Make a DIY menorah with your child this winter.

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.