Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

Your child can create a vibrant and dazzling array of flowers by blending and scraping into paint, and then creating a collage.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

Need to cool down on a hot summer night? This gazpacho recipe does the trick.

Teach your child the colors of the rainbow while creating an impressive treat that will brighten up the whole kitchen.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

This tissue paper painting activity has been developed especially with special needs children in mind, but is an enjoyable craft for just about anyone.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.