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

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

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.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

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.

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!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

Create a beautiful pop-up paper lantern and will serve as the perfect decoration at your next party.

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.

Spiders may be creepy, crawly and sometimes frightening, but not this little fella. He's fun to make and sure will cause a lot of giggling!

Construct a card castle fit for a king! Treat your royal "face" cards (the kings, queens, and jacks) to the cool castle they deserve.

Take a look at this oogly-googly eye Halloween craft! Have your child tweak the design to learn about balance and counterbalance with this crazy-eyed creature.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Your third grader will love both recreating and dressing up as his favorite reptile with this frightening crocodile jaw costume!

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

If your child is particularly handy or artistic, she'll love putting her talents toward making a custom key holder. It's the perfect gift for any occasion.

This is an easy, edible craft that your second grader is sure to enjoy!

Make cupid's arrow with your little one this Valentine's Day. It's a quick and easy craft that's the perfect alternative to candy-giving.

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

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

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

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.

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.