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Let your aspiring poet use book titles to create a funky and visually-appealing masterpiece!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Raspberry hot chocolate is a sweat treat for your young valentine. Pink and delicious, this raspberry hot chocolate makes the perfect Valentine's Day drink.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Help your child learn healthy eating habits by transforming every kid's favorite food into a healthy, flavorful after-school snack.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Turn the marks on the wall into art! Create fingerpaint flamingos, herons and ostriches with this fun craft for kids.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.