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The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.

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.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.

Let your fourth grader contribute to your 4th of July picnic with this creative caddy craft project.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.