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!

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.

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

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

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

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.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

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

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

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

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

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

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.

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