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Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Create a one-of-a-kind lunchbox with your second grader using recycled materials and some down home ingenuity!

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Your second grader can piece together an adorable--and edible!--wreath for Mom in minutes.

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Using hard boiled eggs, leaves and tempera paint, your child can create a delicate garden print decoration on Easter eggs.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

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.

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

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

This simple and introductory art project can help propel an interest in art or even bolster your kid's confidence in planning and mapping.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

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.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

This science project explores the concept of being opaque or clear. Can you make something clear opaque? Or something opaque clear?

Bubble wrap is fun to pop, but it's also fun to paint with! Paint a pretty seascape using bubble wrap as your brush.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.