This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.