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Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Help middle schoolers use maps, math, and history for some Fourth of July fun.

Ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel! The purpose of this experiment is to identify a starch plant that produces the largest quantity of ethanol.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine whether frozen vegetables have more nutrients than canned vegetables.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

This science fair project idea provide quantitative data about how well the use of ASL ( American Sign Language) works in communicating with babies.

Want to turn your child into an expert orator, but don't know how to rid him of the middle school mumbles? Try this activity to get your child to speak up!

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your child think outside the box as they create these festive noisemakers, a fun way to ring in the new year.

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

This beginner's sewing craft turns ordinary gloves into fancy fur fashion statements!

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

Kids think of 25 ways to live healthier, more active lives and come up with a plan to put into action in this middle school heath activity.

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

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!

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

Determine how effective animal camouflage is by simulating it in an indoor and outdoor setting.

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

Kids use applied math to build and test a parabolic mirror solar hot dog cooker in this cool engineering science fair project idea for middle school.