Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Explore your kitchen and create a delicious holiday fudge that your child can share with friends and family!

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Instead of giving friends and family a store bought fruitcake you can make your own this year with your favorite ingredients!

This beginner's sewing craft turns ordinary gloves into fancy fur fashion statements!

Make this mason jar craft that looks like a glowing snowflake and works like a lantern!

Your child can create a special winter headband with the help of some white felt and a length of silver ribbon.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Have your child make a holiday scarf with inexpensive materials, no sewing required!

Did you know cooking supports your child in learning complex math skills? Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills by whipping up some healthy sweet potatoes for a dinner side dish!

This simple illuminaria can be made for any season or holiday. It's so fun that parents and kids alike will enjoy making a new one for each special holiday!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Everyone needs to stay warm during the cold winter months, including your cup of cocoa! This mug cozy will do the trick.

Made to humorously resemble reindeer droppings, these simple to make and yummy to eat holiday desserts are destined to become a family favorite.

An easy afternoon craft, this reusable heating compress is just the thing for warming cold limbs on chilly winter days.

Complete with the drippy, glittery shapes that make icicles so popular, this paper project can be hung everywhere from door frames to tabletops.

Combine winter charm with DIY fashion to create this lovely piece of jewelry.

Wake up and create a fun, healthy snowman with your learner! As a family, create a snowman on your plate with yogurt, add some snowman accessories, and design a snowy environment.