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Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

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.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

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

Forget toy stores! Show your first or second grader how to make a vehicle out of fruit from a neighbor's tree or local farmers' market.

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.