Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

The Egg in a Basket, a traditional British breakfast component, is a simple snack that kids and parents can cook together!

Bake these delicious Crisco Cookies with your child this holiday season to give as gifts to friends and family.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!