Here's an activity that lets your third grader, fourth grader, or fifth grader bring the warmth and light of lanterns into your home by making his own.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Let your child's imagination run wild with this creative third grade arts and crafts activity: make a fanciful costume out of a cardboard box.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This hands-on activity will introduce your third grader to the concepts of positive and negative space as she makes a shamrock!

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Show your fifth grader how fun and fashionable recycling can be! Guide her in making her own wallet by fusing together old plastic bags with an iron.

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Discover the science behind materials that absorb heat, and materials that don't, by constructing this cork trivet for your dinner table.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

This art exercise is great way to help kids learn how to see just like a professional painter, while experimenting and having fun with monochromatic color!

Transform ordinary metal paper clips into wearable jewelry by adding beads and linking the clips together.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

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

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

Have a Twelfth Night celebration with this holiday tutorial and craft. Learn how to throw a Twelfth Night celebration in your house this winter.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

A woven heart makes a thoughtful and heartfelt gift for a special friend or family member on Valentine's Day. Make a woven heart with your young crafter.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Turn up the heat this February with a melted crayon heart, a crafty and colorful decoration for Valentine's Day.

Making these one-of-a-kind mug markers will help your child flex his creativity and gain button-sewing practice.

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

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.

In celebration of National Peace Day on September 21st, your child can create a colorful peace collage, using magazine clippings and colorful pieces of paper.

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

Stir up some friendly competition with this tabletop bow and arrow craft!