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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In this activity, your child will prepare for the first night of Passover by creating her own Seder plate.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

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

Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

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

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Oragami Christmas ornaments make a beautiful addition to your family's tree. Make origami Christmas ornaments out of old wrapping paper this holiday season.

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

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Help your child to invent her own chore-helper to help her put that growing imagination to good use!

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!