This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This Santa Claus craft is made to look like the jolly holiday icon himself. Make a Santa Claus craft with your child this holiday season.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Turn sweet treats into miniature masterpieces with this candy melting activity!

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Are you looking for a fun pool game that doesn't require a lot of heavy accessories? Try Steal the Bacon, a creative form of tag your child is sure to love.

A heart hug can brighten up any dreary Valentine's Day. Give a friend a heart hug with this fun holiday craft.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

Make a beautiful nature silhouette to remember a family walk in the park or a camping trip with friends.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

Put some spring back in the season and teach your child a little about plants with this fun paper flower art project!

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

Expand on your childâs time-telling skills by helping him learn how an analog clock and a digital clock correspond.

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this second-grade math card game.

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

Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head.

If you're trying to teach your child about waste and its impact on the environment, why not repurpose a plastic milk jug and make your own sandwich container?

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.