Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

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.

Climates with more snowfall have more coniferous forests and fewer deciduous ? Learn about how pine trees in a coniferous forest adapted to withstand snow.

Part food craft, part witchcraft, this is a yummy delight your middle schooler will want to make à and eat!

Want a sugar-sculpted house, just like Hansel and Gretel found? Make a miniature version in this sweet geometry activity.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

What better way to show someone you love them than by telling them? This hair band craft features the American Sign Language sign for âI Love You.â

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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.

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

Based upon traditional Indonesian Wayang puppets; kids will make their very own puppet in this activity, with movable arms that can be operated with sticks.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

In this science fair project, students focus sunlight with a magnifying glass and trap shorter waves to melt ice.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Show your kid how to put a new spin on an old classic with this fun party game.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

What do ants eat? Kids find out by observing a colony of ants in this cool zoology science fair project for 4th grade.

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

Be an inspector detective for a day in this fun mystery game that puts your child's powers of observation to the test. Perfect for a party or group gathering.

Here's a game your child is sure to love playing with her friends: French Cricket. Just grab a baseball bat and a tennis ball, and you're set.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.