This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

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

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

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

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Do plants get crowded? Have your curious kid investigate how plants respond if they're forced to grow together in a confined space.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

This science fair project examines how seeds hitchhike on animals and clothing.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this experiment, kids will see if pruning tomato plants makes them more fruitful and learn about the factors that contribute to a plant's fruit production.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

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.

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Celebrate April Fools' Day with a science prank that is sure to amuse...and educate too!