Activities : Page 109

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

This experiment investigates whether the psychological phenomenon of the halo effect can be used to explain people's perceptions of others.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Get your fifth grader involved in some earth science by helping her plan and create her very own rock collection.

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

Take some inspiration from the past and create some wood block prints with your fourth grader.

Your kid will love making these cute and festive Easter bunny pancakes. This Easter, turn a holiday breakfast into a delicious measurement activity!

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Everyone loves homemade cookies, but have you ever thought about making the cookie cutters at home? Here's some instructions for making homemade cookie cutters.

This folk art painting lets kids develop watercolor and painting techniques with scenes of everyday life.

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Determine whether cats have dominant paws. Observe which paw cat uses to reach for treats, feather, and string. Calculate percentage for two paws.

By using a tapestry needle, double-sided tape and a stitch guide, this activity helps make sewing more accessible to a beginner.

Create an bouquet of flowers that will last forever using plastic straws and tissue paper!

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Get in the 4th of July spirit by whipping up a batch of frosty snow cones, sweetened with syrup in a patriotic palette.

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!

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.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.