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In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Your child can create a string wrapped headband to hold her hair back during the hot summer. Plus, it will re-purpose left over bits of string and thread!

Don't despair if numerators and denominators seem like a bore to your child. This colorful collage is sure to show him the brighter side of fractions.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Boost your child's imagination and creativity by having her design her own deck of trading cards.

Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project! 

Invite your fifth grader to design a fleet of miniature paddle boats to race in the family bathtub.

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

Choose a design that is as simple or as intricate as you like and create a stencil that you can use over and over again.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

This science fair project idea builds models of various types of bridges and then determines which bridge design is the strongest.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.