Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

This Valentine's Day, pair up science and crafting with this simple crystal formation project that's sure to bring a little love into your home.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.