Activities : Page 117

Don't let alphabet practice turn into catching zzz's. Paint up a zany Z zebra and inject a little excitement into learning letters.

This zombie recipe helps you make some healthy fingers to nibble on at your next Halloween party. Try this zombie recipe with your undead friends.

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

Valentine's Day coupons get kids to stretch their imaginations and budgets for the holiday. Make Valentine's Day coupons for friends and family this February.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

In this science fair project, students evaluate if the phases of the moon affect the way people feel.

Make this cute Rudolph holiday card holder so you can keep track of them and share them with the world.

This experiment will explore if magnetism has any effect on the regeneration abilities of flatworms.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Help your kid organize her collection of earrings and other accessories with a fun embroidery craft!

Orchestrate a Cupid's arrow tossing game among your child and his friends. This fun game cultivates important motor skills and hand-eye coordination, too.

Take a look at forensic science with your child. She'll learn how to take a shoe impression, just like the detectives do!

This experiment uses personality assessments to evaluate the prevalence of specific character traits in left-handed and right-handed people

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Will increasing the amount of salt in water effect how slow or fast the water freezes?

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

Valentine cookies are a classroom staple on Valentine's Day. Make a batch of delicious valentine cookies with your child this February.

The proportion game combines chance with math skills and is a perfect way for your third grader to become more familiar with equivalent fractions.

What causes dilated pupils? Young scientists will find out by applying what they already know about changes in pupil size and making models of the pupil.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This underwater painting is as colorful as it is fun!

Make this Easter egg craft that works as both a fun necklace or a decorative garland to welcome warm weather and spring sunshine.

The goal of this evaporation experiment is to learn about how different external conditions affect drying time.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.