Activities : Page 56

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Yarn ornaments are a beautiful and crafty way to celebrate the holidays. Make a set of yarn ornaments with your child, then hang them on your Christmas tree.

Kids make an electromagnet in this electromagnetic induction experiment to learn about induction, current, and the right-hand rule.

Use the activity below to help your child create bath salts as she observes how a solid changes when placed into a liquid.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

Looking for a fun way to remember your child's small handprints that doesn't involve tired turkeys or tubs of wet cement?

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Science fair project that tests how well various sunscreens protect skin from the sunâs ultraviolet radiation by measuring their effect on sun-sensitive paper.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Keep your holiday memories safe in this crafty photo box, handmade by your child, that's decorated with the signs of the season,

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

Did you ever drink spoiled milk? Find out whether whole milk spoils at the same rate as 2% and skim milk.

Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!

This fun science project explores the climate change over the course of the history of Earth and helps construct a diorama representing a geologic time period.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Repurpose those plastic shopping bags hiding in your house into a fun and exciting decoration your child can hang in her room!

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.

Forget model kits! Promote creativity by having your child construct a dinosaur model using marshmallows and toothpicks.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

Here's a social studies activity to help your middle-school or high-school teenager better understand how contour maps work using only the back of her hand.

This science fair project idea explores what it takes to create a biosphere, or a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Learn how the focal length of a lens affects a magnifying glass's magnifying power in this cool science fair project idea for 8th grade.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.