A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.

These decorative vampire bat baskets make for the perfect Halloween party favors, and they're fun for you and your child to make!

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

In this matching activity, your kid will match the clock faces representing analog time with the numeric readings representing digital time.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Discover whether cold or hot water from the faucet will boil faster on the stove.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

This science fair project idea examines which type of insulation holds in the most heat.

Certain fruits can change gelatinâs ability to set. In this experiment, kids will discover what happens when gelatin meets pineapple enzyme.

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

Who wants to take a boring paper bag to school -- just to throw away as soon as the bell rings -- when you can create a reusable lunch bag out of fleece?

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

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

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

For some good "green" fun, pull out your blender. A spinach smoothie?! You better believe it! And kids will not only slurp it up, they"ll beg for seconds.

Science fair project which determines if plants really do need water to grow, or whether they just need to be kept wet.

Do hand soaps and sanitizers prevent the growth of bread mold? If so, why? Kids will find out with this fun and informative science fair project idea.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

Sneak some vitamin-packed greens into your homemade popsicles for a frozen summer treat thatâs both delicious and nutritious

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.