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

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

Make a paper floral bouquet for Mother's Day that looks as beautiful as real flowers and will last much longer!

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Home made candles make for great home made gifts at Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays. Great presents for any special occasion!

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

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

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Find the North Star, and measure your latitude! The purpose of this science fair project is to find latitude and learn about geographic locations.

This simple sewing activity results in a pair of homemade fleece mittens!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.