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This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Your child will create their very own filigree drawing; twirling, or coiling small strips of lightweight paper around toothpicks and gently gluing them down.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

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!

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

The next time your kid asks, "What's for dinner?" reply, "Dinosaur Bones!" Of course, you don't mean actual bones; just tasty breadstick bones!

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

This fun activity will have your child creating a Halloween-themed bookmark to use throughout the Halloween season. All they have to do is follow the directions on the legend!

Teach your fourth grader how to craft her own decorative felt eggs, a perfect way to symbolize spring and new beginnings!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Children reflect on ways they have cared for themselves, others, and the Earth before building a garden to share beauty with others in their community.

Help your child's backpack stand out from the crowd by attaching trinkets or decorations that are as one of a kind as she is.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Examine which metal conducts more heat by boiling water in 3 pans made of aluminum, copper, and stainless steel.

Science fair project which compares the rate of temperature change and the maximum temperature as a result of the angle of light radiation.

Have you ever noticed the way a dropped stone makes a fun pattern in a pond or lake? What's the science behind these splashy occurrences?

Kids will make predictions about cricket behavior by conducting this fun and easy experiment which simulates different environments for crickets.

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

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!

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