Educational Activities for Kids

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Teach the kids how a bird's nest is made by making your own nests using only natural materials!

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

Invite your middle schooler to bungee jump ... with eggs! This experiment will demonstrate Newton's laws of physics in an entertaining way.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your preschool child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its giant tentacles!

Invite your high schooler to author a letter to his future self about his goals and perspective on life, and then give it to him to review at graduation!

This fun card game is a great way to help your child increase his speed and accuracy when solving integer problems.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to complement what he's learning about this instrument in school.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.