When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Return to school in style! Dress up your pencil holders with this delightful and always seasonally appropriate arts and craft project.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

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

How much does 100 weigh? Play this fun guessing game with your child to commemorate the 100th day of school.

Get inspired by nature and use recycled materials to create unforgettable pencil holders in time for the back to school season.

Try turning the evening ritual of asking about your kid's school day into a challenging game that consists of twenty questions.

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

Creepy, crawly, spooky and even kind of cute! This spider loves school supplies and will do a great job guarding them.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Help your child learn healthy eating habits by transforming every kid's favorite food into a healthy, flavorful after-school snack.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

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 is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.