Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

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

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Using dried beans and corn, foods that are prevalent in Mexican cuisine, your child will create three-dimensional sombrero art.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Calaveras means "skulls" in Spanish, and in Mexico, skulls are brightly decorated to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Teach your little scientist about the amazing powers of gravity by comparing the falling speeds of two yummy fruits

This paper project is sure to hit a home run with your sporty kid.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.