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

Teach your fourth grader how to craft her own decorative felt eggs, a perfect way to symbolize spring and new beginnings!

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.

Improve your child's memory, focus, and concentration with this outdoor group memory game. For 4th grade, 5th grade, and middle school age children.

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

Don't throw that Sunday paper away just yet! If you've got a kid who thinks she's "too old" for crafts, introduce her to beautifully simple newspaper flowers.

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

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

Need an outdoor activity for your next party or family gathering? Try this wacky group relay game that's fun for adults and kids alike.

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.

Give your fourth grader a lesson in making blankets, and he'll be able to give the gift of warmth. Fleece blankets are especially fun to make, and they're cozy!

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

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

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.

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

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

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.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

What chromosome combinations determine a fetus gender? Use probability to think about whether a sperm and ovum will create a male or female in this project.

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

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

To practice place value, here's a fun hands-on activity to get your child flipping through place value with ease!

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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

Students will investigate the thermal conductivity of metals by learning how to measure thermal conductivity with this fun and easy science fair project idea.

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.