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Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

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

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

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

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

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

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

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

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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

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.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

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!

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

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.

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

While building his own croquet set, your kindergartener will use both his math an fine motor skills and as he plays he'll improve his hand-eye coordination.

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

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Gather your child's old artwork together into a bookmark, a perfect gift to retain these memories long after kindergarten is over.