Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Spice up your everyday vase with this fun craft adding colorful layers of beans to a regular vase. The beans add beauty and function, helping prop up flowers.

Add a bit of whimsy and wisdom to your child's desk with this sensational owl craft.

A heart hug can brighten up any dreary Valentine's Day. Give a friend a heart hug with this fun holiday craft.

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Kids can make a cute fluffy bunny for Easter using a tin can and cotton balls in this creative first grade arts and crafts activity.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

Turn printed family photos into a sturdy "flash card" game to help your child learn the names and faces of near and distant relatives.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Your child can create a toy soap sure to provide bath time fun for himself or, when given as a gift, a friend!

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

These spooky eyeballs are simple enough for kids to make, and featur carrots, olives and cream cheese for a nutritious nosh.

Kids will learn how to show the direction of magnetic field lines and create a permanent model using iron filings in this great science fair project idea.