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How do organic materials become soil? This science experiment measures what materials biodegrade.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

Help your child make her very own candy bars with this easy recipe.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

mix and match your own creative outfits while also predicting clothing combinations -- style and statistics practice all in one!

Homemade breakfast bars with chocolate and cherries make a tasty to-go breakfast for Valentine's Day. Whip up a batch of homemade breakfast bars with your kid.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

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

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

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!

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

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Does the temperature of a magnet affect its strength? Learn about the relationship between magnets and temperature with this cool physics science fair project.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.