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A scarecrow Halloween craft featuring recycled materials.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Have your child make a holiday scarf with inexpensive materials, no sewing required!

Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

This homemade pom-pom garland requires very few materials and instantly brightens up a room with Easter-themed pastels.

Thiscuddly stuffed animal is made from just a few materials, including your recycled stockings.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Coil your daughter's two favorite colors into a wearable pendant with just a few scraps of felt!

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

In this arts and crafts activity, help your preschooler make metal cloth embroidery art using only a metal screen, yarn, and other materials!

Children get creative as they experiment with fabrics and textures to create their very own collagraphs.

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Help your young sewer create a delightful owl egg cosy out of just a few felt scraps and some embroidery floss.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Let your child's imagination run wild with this creative third grade arts and crafts activity: make a fanciful costume out of a cardboard box.

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

This activity will give your child a chance to practice threading a needle, and she'll end up with a fun and unique hair band!

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

All it takes is some colored felt fabric, a needle, thread, and a few beads and your daughter can make decorative felt pinwheels!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

These finger puppets are easy to make, and they're a great way to encourage story-telling and imaginative play.

Quick and easy, this middle school activity makes a great first sewing project and is the perfect way to introduce your child to hand or machine sewing.

Give your daughter a neat project to hold the earrings or other small items that are taking over her dresser top.

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

Celebrate spring -- and take care of a little spring cleaning -- with this creative craft that turns a single sock into an adorable rabbit.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.