Want to add some extra pizazz to dress up play? Help your child craft a personalized purse out of an old gift or shopping bag!

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

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

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key kindergarten math skill.

This creative art project lets kids explore the wonder of sea creatures while putting their ingenuity and problem solving skills to use.

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.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

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.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Kids can celebrate Veterans Day by making a mosaic American flag out of jelly beans in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Got an empty bottle sitting around collecting dust? Put it to good use by turning it into a homemade night light for your kids.

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!

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!

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.

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.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school will love turning flower pots into homemade musical instruments in this fun and simple activity.

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 paper mache jack-o'-lantern is a fun craft for kids who are too young to carve a pumpkin. See your paper mache jack-o'-lantern outlast its carved peers.

While you whip up mashed potatoes for your next dinner party, your first grader and friends can stay occupied by crafting their own silly spud characters.

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