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This science fair project idea explores if an LED light can be powered by vegetables and/or fruits.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Reusable Christmas gift bags are eco-friendly and pretty. Make a batch of reusable Christmas gift bags for your friends and family this holiday season.

make the most original Easter eggs on the block with this beading craft to ring in the Spring!

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Make a beautiful waxed Easter egg relief drawing for a lesson in this unique art technique.

This experiment will explore whether fractals really repeat themselves infinitely.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Kids will love making sugar crystals in this sugar crystal science fair project which teaches important chemistry concepts like saturation and solubility.

Collect a bag of treasures on a nature walk and use them to create a sensational tactile masterpiece!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

This science project examines the history of earthquakes and what we can do to prevent future disasters.

Determine whether magic salt is more effective at melting snow than regular salt. Pour one ounce of salt over the ice cubes, compare the melt downs.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

From wizards to fairy godmothers, a magic wand is an essential element to any magical tale. Help your child make one of her own with simple craft supplies.

Determine which factors promote the greatest memory interference. Administer test, time how long it takes subjects to complete different tasks.

Research hemispheric brain dominance in order to determine if you have a dominant side. Test foot, ear dominance. Record observations.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"