Your child may have fallen in love with certain brand-name trains, but it's just as much fun to make your own - and a whole lot cheaper. Here's how.

One thing the Christmas season is known for making is yummy treats! Cookies, pies, fudges, and cakes are common desserts during Christmas time. If you want to choose a healthier option this holiday season, create a Christmas tree with fruit. It will be a

This clay doesn't need to go into the oven. Brew up a batch, let your child shape it, and dry overnight. By morning, it's ready for paint. Perfect for holidays!

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Ordinal numbers, or numbers that indicate order, are the focus of this fun math game for young learners.

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

Snowman soup is an extra special kind of hot chocolate. Make some snowman soup with your child, and let him practice measuring and mixing this holiday season.

Create an adorable, non-edible turkey decked out with colorful bursts of tissue paper that pop off the page.

Wishing for snow? If the weather refuses to cooperate, take charge and make your own snow in this fun painting activity!

Has your preschooler ever wanted to be a pirate? This fun activity will put her healthy imagination into action!

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Preschoolers can explore shapes and texture in this fun and fantastically messy art project!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

Here's a delicious activity that lets your preschooler or pre-kindergartener prepare her own fun and healthy snack using cookie cutters.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Craft these awards out of ribbon for a birthday, party, holiday, or any other event you can think of!

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Help your preschooler practice tying knots and bows by making a chain of chocolate kisses in this sweet Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity.

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!