Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This circle game practices patterning and flexes your child's memory.

This biodiversity project examines the biodiversity in your own backyard.

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.

Kids get to play mad scientist in this wacky drawing game that's a great way to help kids to mellow out after the high-energy antics of recess.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Learn to make homemade ketchup with your child and experiment with spices and flavors!

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Celebrate the season with a fall centerpiece art project your child can display for the whole family!

Build a 3d animal cell model with this cool science fair project, which helps kids visualize and understand the function of a cell's parts and organelles.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Button art gets your child to make a pretty silhouette out of buttons. Make button art on Valentine's Day and any craft-filled day you'd like.

Do you hear "I forgot" more often than you would like? Give your kid a reason to remember to wash the dishes with a fun and colorful chore checklist!

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Dress up a plain old pen with this pretty craft that's great for back-to-school time.

This fun and easy activity encourages the skill of overlapping objects, while your child gets to draw his own farm and color in clip art farm animals!

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

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

Invite your fifth grader to test the different rates of liquid absorption in synthetic and cotton materials, such as nylon and cotton.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

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!

This Christmas collage lets your child learn shapes, cubist art of Picasso and have fun during the holidays!