Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Children build a "Loving Kindness Garden" to represent what they have learned about love, mindfulness, and caring for others in community.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

Here's a brain-challenging treasure hunt for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.

In this classic Ivory soap experiment, kids learn what happens to different types of soap in the microwave, and why!

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

Can a horse lead itself to the carrot? Train your horse with carrots and boxes and test horse memory in this fun zoology science fair project.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

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

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

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.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

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.

Understanding what forgiveness is and why it is important for friendships is a critical life skill. In this home activity, your child will learn about forgiveness and write a forgiveness letter to someone.

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!