From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

Looking for a way to engage your child with an interest in family history, or boost his writing? This is a great writing and storytelling activity.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Use playing cards to learn about temperature as well as positive and negative integers in this fourth grade math game.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

Your child will jump at the chance to get messy (under adult supervision, of course) with this project and create some unique home decor that really shines!

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

Invite your child and a few friends to get crabby in this game of soccer with a twist: Instead of running, players "crab crawl" around the playing field.

This paper alternative to tie-dye is faster, easier, and (slightly) less messy, only requiring paper, white crayons, and a little imagination.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

Let your fifth grader craft a gleaming green shamrock pin for himself or a friend this St. Patrick's Day!

Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head.

Create a beautiful pop-up paper lantern and will serve as the perfect decoration at your next party.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Encourage sensory exploration with this sticky, but not messy, art projectâ no glue or gunk required!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

If you're trying to teach your child about waste and its impact on the environment, why not repurpose a plastic milk jug and make your own sandwich container?

Construct some glittery ring bling with this ring bracelet craft.

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.