Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Patterns come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. As your child alters one element and then another they'll create a unique piece of artwork.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Penguins just may be the cutest cold-weather creatures ever! Creating this penguin is a perfect way for your tot to practice cutting out different shapes.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Make some cool hearts that are sure to brighten anyone's Valentine's Day. This project is a opportunity to play with overlapping shapes and show your love!

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

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.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Lunch is always better when you share it with a wise companion This wide-eyed owl craft is a great way for your growing learner to practice cutting shapes.

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Explore measurement with your second grader and make this terrific holiday craft.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

In kindergarten, kids work with patterns. Try making this practical but decorative piece of clothing together for fun and math practice.

Give mom a thoughtful gift this Mother's Day by making a photo collage of her life! This is a great way for your child to practice some basic math skills too!

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to upper elementary students.

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Using markers and construction paper, your child will design their own patterned fish.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.