Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Get into the back-to-school spirit with this clip magnet that'll make sure your first grader never loses his important school papers again!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

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

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.