Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

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 funny valentine features springing hearts and sparkling stickers to make an unusual holiday greeting. Make a funny valentine with your little comedian.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

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

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

This stamp-making fabric craft will get you in the mood for a picnic and get your child excited about fruit.