Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Celebrate our founding fathers and the parchment they wrote on with this DIY scroll project.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

Let the world be your canvas by transforming an ordinary household window into a snowy holiday scene.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Pin the nose on Rudolph with this festive Christmas game. Play Pin the Nose on Rudolph with your friends and family this holiday season.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

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

Make this easy homemade tie for a great Father's Day gift this year.

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

Explore geometric shapes and pattern as your child makes her very own Hawaiian kapa cloth.

Delight your second grader (and his best friend!) by showing him how to make a friendship collage jar project for someone special this holiday season.

Understanding how good friends can have a positive effect on our lives is important in all stages of life! In this activity, children will write create a "Want Ad for a Friend" and will list all of the characteristics that are most important in a friend.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

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 paper alternative to tie-dye is faster, easier, and (slightly) less messy, only requiring paper, white crayons, and a little imagination.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Your second grader will get great measuring practice as she helps you make this rich and creamy green dip!

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.