This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a water bottle.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Spice up your everyday vase with this fun craft adding colorful layers of beans to a regular vase. The beans add beauty and function, helping prop up flowers.

Here's a party game that's guaranteed to bring along lots of laughs. Kids get creative as they act out improve scenes with some help from an audience.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

Your third grader will love reliving his favorite holiday story as he creates a charming Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer sculpture!

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

This twist on the classic game of freeze tag spells fun for your fourth grader--and the whole family!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Pilgrim hat cookies are tasty Thanksgiving treats. Make marshmallow pilgrim hat cookies with your child to celebrate the Thanksgiving season.

Fireworks are such an exciting part of part of summer festivities, but it's sad when the show is over. Keep them alive all year long with watercolor fireworks.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Help your child explore this ancient art technique with the help of some tinfoil, black paint and the end of a paintbrush!

For this science fair project, kids will learn how to make a lemon battery. They can conduct this classic experiment using readily available materials.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

Classic meatloaf gets a healthy update with quinoa in place of breadcrumbs.

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Make a treasure hunt for the kids complete with clues and theyâll be thrilled to find the gelt at the end of their search.