Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

Melted crayon art is all the rage right now. It's simple, inexpensive, and there's no wrong way to do it!

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

Science fair project that examines search engine optimization, internet search trends using a statistical study of searched keywords.

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Analyze competed scientific studies to determine the effectiveness of ancient remedies. Create a chart that illustrates the effectiveness of these treatments.

Demonstrate how tracks are formed by pressing your hand into a cornmeal mixture, then reverse the process and make prints of the track.

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Based upon traditional Indonesian Wayang puppets; kids will make their very own puppet in this activity, with movable arms that can be operated with sticks.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Show your kid how to put a new spin on an old classic with this fun party game.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

This science project examines the history of earthquakes and what we can do to prevent future disasters.

The aim of this science fair project is to study the mathematical construct called magic squares and create a unique magic square puzzle.

This science fair project idea discovers whether plants grow best in chemical fertilizer, organic fertilizer, or with no fertilizer at all.

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

This science fair project idea explores whether dry ice will cool a beverage faster than wet ice.

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

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

This experiment evaluates if people of a specific gender or age more likely have an elevated number of taste buds, allowing them to taste what others cannot.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

A math project teaches students to use a clinometer to gauge the height of very tall objects like trees & to think of better ways to measure how high they are.