This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

This is a surprising science experiment that your child will surely be awestruck by! It involves poking sharpened pencils into a bag filled with water without spilling a drop of water.

In this playful preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom-poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

On a sunny day, make some great art and start a conversation about states of matter in the process with this chalk paint project.

Here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Does your child dream of walking among the dinosaurs? Now he can get a little closer to his dream...with a pair of homemade dinosaur feet!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Use a chunk of Styrofoam and some golf tees to make a safe and quiet tool bench for the kids.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

This year on Dad's day, here's a creative gift that your child can make using simple materials, some of them even recycled.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Introduce your kid to abstract art with this painting activity. It's the perfect way to engage a kinesthetic learner and spark an interest in art history!

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

These papier-mâché bracelets are simple to make, and the result is truly stunning!