10 Creative Ways to Prepare for Back to School

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Construction paper, scissors, markers and glue are all your child needs to make these gruesomely whimsical monster bookmarks.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Make a friendship bracelet with your child this Mother's Day or the next time she is looking for a fun project to do!

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.