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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.

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!

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.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

This crazy-easy felt sandwich sewing project is a fun way to get your child interested in the art of sewing.

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

A Christmas tree advent calendar will help your child count down the days until the holiday. This craft is a great way to keep your child busy this winter.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

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.

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

Using lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, help your child implement kindness and compassion into their interactions with others.