This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

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

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

This felt pie craft not only teaches sewing skills, but is a sneaky introduction to elementary math standards like geometry, measurement and estimation.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

In this fun science fair project idea, kids will experiment with various methods in order to discover the fastest way to cool a soda.

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

Observe corn seed germination to learn about dicots and monocots and how plants grow from seeds to seedlings to full-grown plants!

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.