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These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Decorated with glittery spiderwebs that sparkle like dew in the sun, these handmade note cards make great thank you cards or simply "thinking of you" cards.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Channel the artistic spirit of Romare Bearden by making a mixed media collage to express different moods.

Who wants to take a boring paper bag to school -- just to throw away as soon as the bell rings -- when you can create a reusable lunch bag out of fleece?

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Turn yourself into a personalized paper doll, along with a collection of your favorite outfits.

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Your child can cut her way into making a fun collage of mod-style flowers that will dazzle and delight!

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

This homemade pom-pom garland requires very few materials and instantly brightens up a room with Easter-themed pastels.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

Use a simple toothbrush and a splatter painting technique to create this sparkling skyline work of art!