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

How does distance affect the spreading of light? Kids see diffraction and the inverse square law of light in action with this great science fair project idea.

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

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

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

Staying close to home doesn't mean you can't get moving! Use this fun challenge activity to encourage your child to move their body in new ways while testing their endurance!

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

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

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.

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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.”

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

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

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

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

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

Let your fifth grader use his wits to challenge friends to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes!

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Challenge your child with this exciting 2D to 3D project using a sheet of construction paper, oil pastels, and scissors.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.

Figuring out fractions can be a challenge! But with this game your child will become more comfortable converting fractions after only a little practice.

Has your junior chef moved beyond chicken nuggets and mac and cheese? Challenge him to create his own brand of infused olive oil.

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!