For a fun activity that will have lasting effects, make this time capsule with your high school child, to be opened after college graduation.

Show your high school-aged child an offbeat way to let her friends know their future includes a party: fortune cookie cards!

Love is in the air, and there's no time like Valentine's Day for your high schooler to learn about the most romantic poetic form: the sonnet!

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Help your child bring a bit of Halloween magic to school with a spooky ghost pen!

These handmade Christmas treat cups are perfect for house parties, school celebrations, and holiday bake sales.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Kids grow grass in homemade eggshell planters in this unique middle school arts and crafts activity. Makes a great gift for Easter.

This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

If your Father's Day festivities include meeting up with extended family, why not put all the dads to the test with a chili cook-off?

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Help middle schoolers use maps, math, and history for some Fourth of July fun.

As your middle schooler writes a version of "The Gift of the Magi," he will practice creative writing as he reflects on image, sacrifice, love, and family.

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.

Part food craft, part witchcraft, this is a yummy delight your middle schooler will want to make à and eat!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Entertain your next batch of energetic youngsters with a Halloween-inspired candy hunt!

Here are two streamlined breakfast ideas so that mom not only gets a delicious breakfast for Mother's Day, but a clean kitchen too!

Help the environment this Christmas by using fabric remnants to make this beautiful braided wreath!

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills they're learning in second grade math, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

Help your teen analyze "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe, and then experiment with his poetry skills to create a version of his own.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!