Red Toolbox Birdhouse and Red Classic Toolbox: $27 and $28, respectively As more schools cut shop class, it's increasingly up to parents to teach hands-on woodworking skills.

At the Lowe’s located in Salisbury, employees guided kids on how to hammer a nail and gave other DIY tips on making their very own toolbox that they were allowed to keep at the end of the lesson.

Kids bored again? Try these DIY kid activities that are anything but passive. Burn energy with an indoor parkour track, design a cell phone case, or draw on the walls with (removable) chalk wallpaper.