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.

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

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.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Kids can enjoy the fun of tap shoes without the expense by turning bottle caps and string into removable taps. Strap them on and cut a rug.

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.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Budding bakers can explore the excitement of the kitchen without fear of cuts or hot ovens by making these super simple and tasty cookies.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

In kindergarten, kids work with patterns. Try making this practical but decorative piece of clothing together for fun and math practice.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Tree rings can tell the age of the tree but also information about the world. This science experiment uses tree stumps to discover new facts.

This science fair project teaches students the differences between fruits and vegetables.

This science project challenges students to learn about and classify weeds and discover new practical uses for weeds.

This experiment has students record rat behavior to learn about the benefits of rats and research rat myths throughout history.

Take your child's knowledge of shapes out of the classroom and into the real world!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Create a herd of pachyderms to parade across a dresser or tabletop and take the opportunity to teach your kid a little bit about these majestic mammals.

Halloween wouldn't be complete without a creepy paper hand with spider and eyeball rings to help decorate a haunted house!

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

One of the most beautiful parts of every cathedral is the stained glass window above the entrance, called a Rose window. Your child can create his own!