Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Here are four chocolate bark ideas to prepare with your kids that everyone will love.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

Help your first grader make these patriotic hanging streamer decorations this 4th of July!

Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Covered in patterns and reflective texture, this paper purse is sure to stand out!

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Your child can pretend she is a pro by creating a crackle painting that looks and feels like a classic work of art!

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

Looking for a fun way to remember your child's small handprints that doesn't involve tired turkeys or tubs of wet cement?

Celebrate Independence Day with a bang! Create a dazzling DIY Independence Day Cards and hand them out to friends and family members.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Enjoy the sparkle of a fresh snowfall whether or not the weather outside is chilly enough for snow.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

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

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and sneak in a little extra nutrition this holiday season: make a mashed potato snowman sculpture!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

A pom pom Christmas tree dresses up holiday cards and decorations with some festive fuzz. Make a pom pom Christmas tree with your child this holiday season.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

How does the size of a vibrating surface affect the pitch of a drum? Learn about drum size and pitch with this easy science fair project idea.