If your child isn't wild about tea, help her repurpose an old teacup and saucer as a quirky decorative planter.

Arrange a cluster of glittering pumpkins on your dining table or use them as individual place cards to add a little sparkle to your next fall party.

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a colorful rainbow, a pot of gold and an introduction to printmaking.

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

Your kindergarten artist will love practicing math and coloring when he makes his own unique paint-by-numbers! This activity is creative and educational.

Celebrate National Drum Month in November by using a couple of recycled yogurt cups and making a groovy set of bongos!

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Grab some dice and play this take on tic-tac-toe. Itâs easy to set up and your child will have a blast.

Make your St. Patrick's Day party an extra festive affair with green punch! A mix of sherbet, lime juice, and lemon lime soda, this recipe is sure to be a hit.

Dog valentine cards are perfect for the pet lover in your life. Make a dog valentine card with your child this February.

Your kindergartener will love this counting activity on a rainy day. Turn any indoor space into a colorful hopscotch board and using simple recycled materials.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

Does your child need counting help? Here's a simple game that kids can do at home to help them practice counting to two-digit numbers.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.

Using markers and construction paper, your child will design their own patterned fish.

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.