In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

Construct calorimeter and determine the caloric value of a sample of foods by change in temperature for each of the foods.

Help your third grader make the Scoop 'N Catch--a great choice for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Forget expensive store bought cards, this handmade card truly delivers--and it helps your preschooler with letter recognition.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

Here's a painting activity that's a lesson in secondary colors. Your child will mix and match paints to discover all the different hues one color can have!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Are you ready to pilot your own airplane? Well, then take to the skies with this high-flying project!

Recognizing number patterns is an important ability on the SAT. Here's a game that teaches your student some of the most common sequences in mathematics.

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Explore properties of liquids and how temperature and salinity effect surface tension of liquids in this fun- filled science fair project idea.

This crazy-easy felt sandwich sewing project is a fun way to get your child interested in the art of sewing.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

Help your child create her very own invention just like Leonardo da Vinci as she develops her critical thinking skills and lets her imagination soar!