Here's a fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make homemade clay bead jewelry. All you need is flour, cornstarch, and salt to get started.

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

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

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

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

Drift away with this charming craft that lets your child create a paper hot air balloon or two.

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

Turn a boring lunch bag into a personalized suburban house. Your child will look forward to his lunch when he has the coolest bag house on the block!

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Help your child create an adorable -- or gruesome -- miniature pumpkin candle holder that will shed some tiny pools of light on your dining table or counter.

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

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

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

A recycled egg carton and a big imagination is all it takes for these flowers to bloom!

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

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.

No matter the occasion, this flag craft is the perfect way for you child to proudly display her love of the red, white and blue!

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Skip store-bought jewelry and show your stylish kid how to make her own beaded bracelets.

Get inspired by the great outdoors and help your child make a quirky jewelry tree out of chopsticks!