Create a herd of pachyderms to parade across a dresser or tabletop and take the opportunity to teach your kid a little bit about these majestic mammals.

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

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

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!

Learn about dehydration with a wonderful craft project that you can do together, and enjoy this unique doll for years to come!

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.

Take a look at this oogly-googly eye Halloween craft! Have your child tweak the design to learn about balance and counterbalance with this crazy-eyed creature.

Make a paper jack-o'-lantern treat bucket this Halloween! While crafting, your kid will learn about the process of creating self-standing sculptural objects.

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!

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.

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Keep your child active this summer by transforming old milk jugs into scoops and newspaper into a ball with this exciting game of catch!

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Your child will have a blast creating this adorable black cat with a cardboard tube and some pipe cleaners. A perfect craft for Halloween decorating!

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

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Your child will hop with delight as he make this delicious, edible bunny out of marshmallows.

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

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

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

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.

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

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

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

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.