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Horseshoes makes a perfect family activity for a summer afternoon. With a bit of cardboard and handful of pennies, you can create your own set!

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

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

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Practice probability as well as negative and positive numbers in this fun math card game designed for fourth graders.

The goal of this science fair project is to analyze differences between the taste and texture of frozen and fresh food.

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

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

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

Solfege signs are used to guide students through music that is new to them. Help your musically-inclined child learn to work with this fun system today.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

The purpose of this science fair project is to study the properties of sugar and examine individual preferences for sugar and other sweeteners.

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Light up the sky with this lotus lantern, a perfect way to explore Buddha Day.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

Has your child ever told you he wants to travel the world and meet new people? Why not keep track of his future travel plans with some fun footprint art.

Hop to this froggy Valentine's Day craft! Your little one will love making this unique Valentine's Day card, a heart-shaped paper frog.