Looking for hot weather fun? Cool the kids down with a homemade slip and slide! You can create your own water park atmosphere for just a few bucks.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Your child will have loads of fun creating this decorative basket and filling it with a secret gift or goodie before sharing with a friend or family member.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Celebrate Read Across America with a Dr. Seuss-themed craft: make a paper plate elephant ears costume modeled after Horton from Horton Hears a Who!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Here, kids can make edible collages out of cookies and candy. Colorful, creative, and delicious, they make great gifts for sweet-toothed family and friends.

Make this door curtain to brighten up your home and learn colors and patterns.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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!

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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!

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

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Help your child make a festive woven basket using paper bowls and yarn that is sure to please and fun to make.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school will love turning flower pots into homemade musical instruments in this fun and simple activity.