This school bus is easy to make, and all you need are some common household items.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Here's an easy activity for your preschooler or kindergartener: use waffles and fresh fruit to give your child hands-on practice with patterning and numbers.

Use common kitchen tools to create an entirely uncommon work of art!

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.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Glass candy ornaments are easy to make and fun for kids. Make a batch of glass candy ornaments with your child this holiday season.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Get ready for Thanksgiving by explaining the importance of the harvest. This craft is a great way for her to show thanks for all that delicious food!

Make homemade potpourri out of roses with your child!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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.

With a little guidance from parents, youngsters can create a Christmas tree using their thumb as a stamp.

Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Conjure up a few ghosts to give your house that spooky Halloween feel. All it takes is a bare foot, white paint, and a little bit of craft magic.

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this cute groundhog pop-up toy. All you need is construction paper, a craft stick, and a paper cup to get started.

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Batik is a fabric dying technique usually done with hot wax. This flour-and-water method is kid-safe and easy, and it creates beautiful batik designs.

Be the mane attraction by creating a lion out of leaves! This wild craft keeps kids engaged and makes for fabulous art.

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.