Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

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

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.