In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Your child can help eliminate stress for himself or a loved one by creating a colorful, homemade stress ball.

Kids can enjoy the fun of tap shoes without the expense by turning bottle caps and string into removable taps. Strap them on and cut a rug.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Make your own play dough at home with a fruity scent using this easy activity!

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.

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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.

Assist your kindergartener in constructing his own shy little magic turtle out of just a plastic cup, tube sock, and wooden dowel.

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

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

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

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Want to make your own version of the Hollywood walk of fame in your own garden? Immortalize your child's handiwork by creating a cement handprint craft.

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.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

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

Teach your child how to make her own buzzer using only a button and a string.

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

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!

Make this turkey craft with your child to get into the Thanksgiving spirit. This turkey craft is made of a tissue box and other assorted craft supplies.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Have the kids make Mom a wooden "Love Box" for Mother's Day (or any other day!) to show her how much she means to everyone.