Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Help your 4th grader learn how to make a topographic map and strengthen key grade level social studies and math skills in the process.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

In this science fair project, students will try to discover if test subjects can detect the presence of Monosodium Glutumate (MSG) in food.

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.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

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

Test out the pH levels of soil in your backyard versus soil in more wild environments to solve this science case.

Magnets vary in strength. Have your young scientist figure out which kind of magnet is the strongest when you have him conduct this attractive experiment.

What's my number? Go ahead and guess! This logic game focuses on number sense that suits all ability levels, as players' questions can be simple or complex.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.