While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Look for correlation between pH values of commercial soaps and detergents and manufacturer claims about eye irritation hazards.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

In this activity, create a poem that emerges from the collaboration of parent and teen in the activity of observing, discussing, reading, and writing.

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.