Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Return to school in style! Dress up your pencil holders with this delightful and always seasonally appropriate arts and craft project.

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

No big beach party or a sudsy seafood feast should be without this bright, colorful tablecloth!

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Bring a swell of high sea adventure to your own living room with this quick and easy paper sailboat craft!

Channel the artistic spirit of Romare Bearden by making a mixed media collage to express different moods.

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Encourage your child to create a tribute to their past, and explore future dreams and goals with this narrative assemblage.

Make the prehistoric monsters of the past seem a bit more real with a craft that brings the chill of the Ice Age to life!

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.

Encourage your third-grader to create a reverse glass painting. This will help him learn art concepts and improve his critical thinking skills.

mix and match your own creative outfits while also predicting clothing combinations -- style and statistics practice all in one!

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

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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.