If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Help your kid create a patriotic red, white, and blue flag banner! On each flag have him write a different word that describes our veterans or fallen soldiers.

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

Calaveras means "skulls" in Spanish, and in Mexico, skulls are brightly decorated to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

Have a little fun playing with food this Thanksgiving, and a silly harvest holiday potato with your child!

Let your first grader get inspired by the fiery fall colors outside his window by creating a beautiful handprint tree!

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

Holiday greeting cards let your child express his holiday cheer and have fun crafting. Make a set of holiday greeting cards with your kid this holiday season.

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Make the world's simplest tutu. Don't worry if you aren't good with a needle--putting this no-sew tutu together is as easy as tying your shoe!

Celebrate National Drum Month in November by using a couple of recycled yogurt cups and making a groovy set of bongos!

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

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.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!