Activities : Page 122

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

In this arts and crafts activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using some paint and his own hands and feet.

Science fair project in which you will attempt to throw a ball the greatest horizontal distance possible by using different angles.

Determine the growth rates of different types of human hair. Ask volunteers to not cut their hair until the end of experiment. Measure hair length.

Help your child add her own silly charm to a pair of traditional chopsticks.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!

Great estimators are made, not born. Here's a Fermi Questions activity to make your child an estimation master.

This conservation of energy demonstration shows why the first hill is the highest on a roller coaster. Learn more about potential and kinetic energy!

Learn about the field of psychophysics and to learn about "Just Noticeable Differences."

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!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Popcorn pops get a Valentine's Day twist with pink popcorn and a red candy center. Make popcorn pops as a special treat for Valentine's Day or any day.

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.

The purpose of this study is to determine if people can tell the difference between organic and conventional food from looking at, smelling and tasting it.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Get a cool middle school chemistry project idea on how to determine whether a physical or a chemical change has taken place.

Compare the amount of ozone in various locations with this science fair project that will have your kid create her own ozone strips!

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

It’s the season for falling leaves, fall colors, and corn! Use this easy activity to help your child make some amazing paintings. They can use their math skills to design patterns for cards, paper, presents and more!

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

This cute owl craft will get your kid excited about fall and Halloween. Make this cute owl craft and teach her a little bit about this wondrous bird.

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

What's the difference between a microwave and an oven? Use mashed potatoes to explore which kitchen appliance does a better job at keeping food warm.

Explore the role of starches as thickening agents in food, and learn about the chemical properties of starch in the process.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.

Find out whether people within a family tend to have matching fingerprints.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Who remembers their ancient Greek history? Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use.

This science fair project idea addresses tempo, and whether faster or slower music works better as a study aid.