Bring back the groovy memories by making shrinky dinks using household materials, while learning about the science of plastics. Here's how to get started:

Store seeds under three different environmental conditions. Plant seeds in carefully marked groups, watch them grow. Compare results.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Reuse old Christmas cards by showing your fourth grader how to weave strips of them together to create new and unique woven holiday cards!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Turn spring cleaning into an opportunity to spend quality time with your teen by helping her redecorate her room.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Have an empty cereal box you're ready to toss in the bin? Help your child recycle that box into some wacky glasses in this fun craft!

Make over an old shirt that's destined for the thrift shop with this heart cut-out craft for Valentine's Day.

Research historic methods of food preservation. Analyze alternative recipes and techniques of food preservation. Document success with photographs.

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate current methods of detecting counterfeit money, in particular counterfeit detection pens.

This science fair project idea demonstrates the property of bouncing in a fresh new way.

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

The aim of this science fair project is to examine the differences between brands of bottled water and analyze consumer preferences through a taste test.

Help your preschooler make an alternative to carrying messy sidewalk chalk in hand: a helpful, handmade sidewalk chalk caddy.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Your child can build the home of her dreams by creating a truly imaginative model. She'll get to draft her own blueprints to design her masterpiece!

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschooler: make pendulum paintings using only a funnel, canvas, and paint!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This science fair project idea discovers new ways to use recycled materials and encourages new architectural design ideas.

This Santa mask is a fun way to celebrate Christmas with your kindergartener. Make a Santa mask to bring a little cheer to your Christmas season.

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Check out this cool science fair idea on why hard fruits become soft and learn how to compare the sugar content between ripe and unripe fruits.

Research optical illusions and human auras. Understand why the probable cause of perception is mach bands.