Activities : Page 114

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

This project examines which type of dance burns the most calories.

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

Make a handprint turkey with your child to celebrate Thanksgiving. A handprint turkey makes a great base for Thanksgiving coasters, note cards, or place cards.

How can we make healthy choices and be thoughtful in our actions? In this social emotional learning activity, your child will reflect on making tough choices and the questions to ask in order to help make healthy choices.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

In this science fair project, students evaluate if astrological signs provide clues about people's personalities.

Let your child be the king or queen of Mardi Gras by making his own shiny and spectacular Mardi Gras crown.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Design and build a balloon rocket from an existing design. Think of the ways in which existing designs can be improved, new practical applications

Your preschooler will master this quick and easy apple pizza recipe in no time! Bread, butter, cheese, and apples make a healthy alternative to greasy pizza.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: try finger painting with corn syrup and food coloring to make bright, colorful works of art.

The purpose of this science fair experiment is to investigate whether the color of your hair affects how much static electricity is carried.

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

This science fair project idea explores what it takes to create a biosphere, or a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Your child can personalize these customizable cookies for friends and family as he makes his own fortune cookies from this fortune cookie recipe.

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

Teach your child how easy it is to make homemade pasta, infused with delicious and nutritious autumn pumpkins.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

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.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.