Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

These easy-to-make felt friends are created by sewing two pieces of felt together with yarn and make great gifts for holidays such as Easter.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Your third grader will love both recreating and dressing up as his favorite reptile with this frightening crocodile jaw costume!

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

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

Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

Your child can build the home of her dreams by creating a truly imaginative model. She'll get to draft her own blueprints to design her masterpiece!

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.