Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Celebrate the spirit of Dr. King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech with this meaningful and educational art project.

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

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Help your fourth grade scientist practice measurement, and make a scrumptious, healthy summer cheesecake in the process!

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

All it takes is some colored felt fabric, a needle, thread, and a few beads and your daughter can make decorative felt pinwheels!

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Introduce decimals and place value with this fun math card game for fourth grade students.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

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

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Learn how to make a ping pong ball anemometerâa device used to measure wind speedâin this free science fair project idea.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.