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This Halloween, have your child create a ghoulish bat treat keeper. While crafting he'll learn the basic components of sculpture.

This Star of David craft is eco-friendly and will help your child practice basic geometry. Make a festive Star of David craft for Hanukkah.

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

Help your child work on her sewing skills by making one-of-a-kind luggage tags for everyone in the family.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

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

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Show your child how to paint in true Georgia O'Keeffe style. He'll enjoy painting art inspired by a master, and boost his math skills, too.

These decorative vampire bat baskets make for the perfect Halloween party favors, and they're fun for you and your child to make!

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

Give your number one dad something that he truly deserves this Father's Day!

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

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

Have your child create a project that combines the beauty of Japanese cherry blossoms with the eco-friendly fun of a recycled craft.

A package of memory wire and some beads are all that your artist needs to make a bracelet. The challenge will be to come up with a design inspired by autumn.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.