Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Help your child to invent her own chore-helper to help her put that growing imagination to good use!

This variation on the game of tag combines exercise, teamwork, and a little friendly trickery.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Get in the 4th of July spirit by whipping up a batch of frosty snow cones, sweetened with syrup in a patriotic palette.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

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

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.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

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

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Make mom feel like the star that she truly is by holding a movie premiere in her honor, complete with red carpet!

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

In this activity you and your child will learn about the African Americans that changed history in a fun quiz format.

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.