Forget toy stores! Show your first or second grader how to make a vehicle out of fruit from a neighbor's tree or local farmers' market.

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this second grade shamrock tote bag craft.

Spruce up some sneakers that have seen better days by turning them into a sparkly dress-up staple.

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

This Hawaiian costume is fun for luaus, Halloween, or playtime. Make a Hawaiian costume, complete with tissue-paper lei and crepe-paper grass skirt.

Show your child how to make homemade wrapping paper with a twist by using sponge art to create the fabulous designs. Here's how:

Use a chunk of Styrofoam and some golf tees to make a safe and quiet tool bench for the kids.

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

Using low-tech supplies and a little extra ingenuity you can help your fourth grader create this unique, heartfelt Valentine card.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

How does your ghost feel? No, no, we're not wondering if it's happy or sad, joyful or mad. We want to know your ghost's texture!

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

Learn how to make marbleized paper with simple everyday ingredients in this fun activity! Your child will learn about oil and water while doing this project.

This year on Dad's day, here's a creative gift that your child can make using simple materials, some of them even recycled.

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

Use Wallace Steven's "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" to inspire your middle school teen to sketch and free-write a poem with shifting perspective.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Make unique jewelry and accessories using photos and shrinkable plastic sheets! It's like Shrinky Dinks, but better.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.