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Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

The objective of this science fair project is to observe the differences in heat absorption for darker colors vs. lighter colors.

This science fair project demonstrates the magic of arches by challenging students to stack telephone books on top of eggs without breaking them.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

In this science fair project, apply the principles of leverage and force by building six simple machines designed to set weights in motion.

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

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

You won't miss the gluten in these pancakes! These delicious and nutritious flap jacks will make a fabulous addition to any breakfast table, gluten free or not!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Introduce your fourth grader to the deliciousness that can come out of the kitchen by helping him make these sugary traditional Mexican cookies, or biscochitos.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This science fair project idea examines the reason boats are shaped and engineered.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

Practice probability as well as negative and positive numbers in this fun math card game designed for fourth graders.

The goal of this science fair project is to analyze differences between the taste and texture of frozen and fresh food.

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

The purpose of this science fair project is to study the properties of sugar and examine individual preferences for sugar and other sweeteners.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.