Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

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

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.