Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Help your fourth grade scientist practice measurement, and make a scrumptious, healthy summer cheesecake in the process!

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

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

Use playing cards to learn about temperature as well as positive and negative integers in this fourth grade math game.

Learn about lateral earthquake motion and its effect on high rise buildings in this simple 4th grade earth science experiment.

Transform a paper coffee cup into an adorable Easter bunny gift basket in this second grade arts and crafts activity.

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

Solve the mystery of the unpoppable balloon in this 7th grade science experiment that demonstrates the process of heat transfer.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Help your child celebrate your family's Thanksgiving cook with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a "handy" painted apron!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.