Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

This colorful caterpillar attaches itself to pencil holders and guards your school supplies!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Your child will do a fun science experiment using soap and pepper flakes to help understand the concepts of water molecules and the surface tension of water.

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills they're learning in second grade math, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.