How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

A fun, life science sxperiment idea idea involving strategies for keeping birds away from crops using a distress call. What kind of distress call works best?

Meant to be fun and inspiring, Oulipo N+7 challenges writers to create new writing, use language and enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Are you able to endure long periods of exercise? Find out if snorers can exercise longer than non-snorers.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

In the mood for a silly treat full of sweet goodness and winter-themed fun?

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's a fun way to bring estimation to the breakfast table.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to introduce new music to your child and also to get him inspired to create abstract art with rhythmic flair.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This simple game isn't just a diversion, it teaches your child to identify the incorrect word within a familiar verse.

Help your child harness her feelings about a favorite city, by using her city knowledge to produce a poetic composition.