Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Save up your paper rolls to help your child create an upcycled craft that looks just like iron work!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

Create clever airplane favors for your child's next birthday party in this fun third grade arts and crafts activity.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

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

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

Kids will have a hoot constructing this cute owl craft from a recycled toilet paper roll.

This Christmas gnome hails from Scandinavia. A Christmas gnome, also known as a nisse, gives gifts on Christmas.

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!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Re-use old plastic food containers to create these uniquely beautiful stepping stones to embed in your backyard!

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Santa needs all the helpers he can get, so why not create your very own holiday elf to watch over your presents.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Construct a card castle fit for a king! Treat your royal "face" cards (the kings, queens, and jacks) to the cool castle they deserve.