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This fun arts and crafts activity will help your child learn about the colors of the different seasons through the art of relief sculpture.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Stir up some enthusiasm for experimentation with this candy-cracking science experiment!

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!

You won't miss the gluten in these pancakes! These delicious and nutritious flap jacks will make a fabulous addition to any breakfast table, gluten free or not!

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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 kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Introduce your fourth grader to the deliciousness that can come out of the kitchen by helping him make these sugary traditional Mexican cookies, or biscochitos.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Help your child make these tasty treats for someone with a sweet tooth. These cookie pops are not only fun and delicious, but they're quick to make, too!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

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 construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!