Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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!

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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!

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

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.