Activities : Page 166

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

If you're trying to teach your child about waste and its impact on the environment, why not repurpose a plastic milk jug and make your own sandwich container?

With this activity, your child can learn about how molecules join together and make a pretty decoration to hang around the house. Here's how:

Demonstrate the capillary function in plants by adding food coloring to glasses of water. Slice stalks of celery and leafy tops. Compare color of leaves

Bring a swell of high sea adventure to your own living room with this quick and easy paper sailboat craft!

Could there be toxic chemicals lurking in the cupboards and closets of your home?

Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

This project explores differences in people's reactions to images in color and images in black and white.

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

Your child will be cheering for 8s and 9s as she tries to create a larger number than her competitors. Whoever ends up with the largest number wins!

Your fourth grader be delighted to create monkey companions out of poster board! They also provide a perfect opportunity to teach her interesting monkey facts.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Using favorite quotes and song lyrics, your child can make a quote of the month calendar for her friends to hang in their lockers or their bedrooms.

Science fair project that examines the biodiversity of ant populations in various locations.

Study emulsifiers and learn how they are used in food science, medicine, soaps and cosmetics. Identify which materials are created using an emulsifier.

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

This hybrid indoor/outdoor craft results in a pretty handmade piece of jewelry thatâs easy on the eyes and the wallet!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Add a Hannukah twist to Chutes and Ladders by using a dreidel as the dice.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Celebrate the gooey goodness of peanut butter with a yummy treat your young chef can whip together himself.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

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

Explore your kitchen and create a delicious holiday fudge that your child can share with friends and family!

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Add negative and positive numbers in this fun math card game for fourth graders!

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.