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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.

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

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Check out this activity that has your kid create her own Cubist montage. Soon your kid will be well on her way to understanding the vibrant art of Cubism!

This project uses science and art to help students learn and teach others about Earth's endangered and extinct species.

The crust is fun for kids to mix and roll out, and the filling overflows with vitamin and anti-oxidant packed berries!

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Crazy quilting is a fun and easy way for kids to exercise some creativity and connect with the past.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Learn about the beautiful Indian art of Madhubani painting with this fun and creative project.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Let your aspiring poet use book titles to create a funky and visually-appealing masterpiece!

Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, this make your own stamps project will be a big hit with your fifth grade or middle school child.

Raspberry hot chocolate is a sweat treat for your young valentine. Pink and delicious, this raspberry hot chocolate makes the perfect Valentine's Day drink.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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.

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

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

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

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

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

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

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

Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

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.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Chlorine and chloramine are added to our tap water to kill harmful microorganisms. What is the best way to filter these disinfectants in your drinking water?

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.