This science project teaches students the relationship between compost and plant growth. Students conduct an experiment with different types of compost.

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

This science fair project idea tests whether tall people have the ability to swim faster than people of average and shorter heights.

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

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.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Bake some cookies with an oven that collects sunlight and traps the shorter wavelengths (heat!).

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

Whether your child wants to be a cowboy or a princess, this homemade horse prop is perfect to use in all sorts of imaginative play!

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

In this pretend play activity, your child will get to design a custom superhero utility belt and invent a new superhero to go with it!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.