Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In this activity, your child will discuss problem-solving strategies and practice using these strategies with Tangram puzzles.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Build your child's math skills with this 2nd-3rd grade activity. Similar to a carnival toss, this egg carton toss game is sure to provide hours of fun.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

This tissue paper painting activity has been developed especially with special needs children in mind, but is an enjoyable craft for just about anyone.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

This science fair project idea produces varying pitches of sound.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Most often, a collage is 2-dimensional, but instead of using paper as a base, this project uses an inexpensive pumpkin from the craft store.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

This chocolate gelt is the perfect Hanukkah treat. Chocolate gelt is used as a gift for children or in the classic Hanukkah game of Dreidel.