Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

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.

Help the elephant bird come back to life with this awesome paper mache craft.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Your fourth grader be delighted to create monkey companions out of poster board! They also provide a perfect opportunity to teach her interesting monkey facts.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Invite your kid to create her own hanging dove images--a symbol of peace and unity--in honor of Black History Month.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This seashell necklace lets you keep a piece of the beach with you. Help your crafty kid create this seashell necklace, the perfect summer keepsake.

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

This biodiversity project examines the biodiversity in your own backyard.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

Fire up the grill, break out the raffia and get crafty with flowers--it's time to learn how to throw your own luau!

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.