Activities : Page 59

Give your fourth grader a lesson in making blankets, and he'll be able to give the gift of warmth. Fleece blankets are especially fun to make, and they're cozy!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

Science fair project that compares leaf pigments of various tree species. Which tree species do you think will have the most pigments and why?

This science project challenges students to learn about and classify weeds and discover new practical uses for weeds.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

Put your teenager in the director's chair by having her put a modern-day spin on Romeo and Juliet.

Introduce your kid to cooking basics as you make shepherd's pie: a traditional Irish dish thanks to the trusty potato!

Create a tornado vortex in your kitchen in this 5th grade science experiment. All you need are two plastic bottles, duct tape, and a metal washer to begin.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

Show your fifth grader how to create a vivid and colorful, Picasso-inspired, 3-D mask.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

Demonstrate Newton's laws of motion by examining the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration during free-fall.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

The goal of this science fair project is to investigate the effect of irradiation on the germination and growth of vegetables, such as the tomato plant.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

In this tons-of-fun reading activity, your child plans a storytime, makes a flyer, creates a coloring sheet, and hosts their own storytime.

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.

Explore the relationship between personality traits and birth order effects.

Science fair project which will teach you more about the foods that you eat, and learn which ones are healthier choices.