This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

In this activity, your child will use household objects to sculpt his very own football.

Create some flying bats with your little one this Halloween season. This activity is a great way for your little one to learn about symmetry.

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

Get oodles of noodles this year, not for dinner, but to create this funky ornament for the Christmas tree!

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

Encourage a bit of mystery and intrigue by teaching your clever kid how to create and use secret codes.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

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.

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.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

If your first grader loves to play with her food, turn the messy habit into a clever arts and craft project.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

Here's a fun arts and crafts activity that has you and your child creating a book with a secret hollow!

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.

Make some beautiful and unique candles to light your home.