Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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.

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!

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.

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

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

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!

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!

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

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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.