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

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!

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

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

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

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.

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 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!

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.

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!

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