Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

This Halloween, have your child create a ghoulish bat treat keeper. While crafting he'll learn the basic components of sculpture.

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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.

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

Making these fabulous cupcake liner flowers is a great way to introduce your child to relief artwork and patterns.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

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

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

Looking for interesting craft projects using pipe cleaners? This easy art project will encourage the sculptor in your child.

Send big holiday love on a small budget by sending these "Elf Tickets" this year...and give your child some writing practice in the bargain.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.