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Kids can celebrate Veterans Day by making a mosaic American flag out of jelly beans in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Using low-tech supplies and a little extra ingenuity you can help your fourth grader create this unique, heartfelt Valentine card.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this second grade shamrock tote bag craft.

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Your preschooler or kindergartener will learn about Thanksgiving and the symbolic Fall cornucopia with this festive homemade decoration activity!

Here's a fun car game for you: Blind Distance. Blind Distance is a great way to bond with your child and teacher her about depth perception at the same time.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

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

3-D Christmas tree cookies look impressive but are an easy holiday recipe that kids can make. These sugar cookies stand up on their own!

Give your child some simple craft supplies and see what happens in this heartwarming and artistic contribution to the Seder table this year.

Keep your child active this summer by transforming old milk jugs into scoops and newspaper into a ball with this exciting game of catch!

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

This science fair project idea explores how enzyme inhibitors, active sites, non-competitive enzyme inhibitors, and substrates work.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

Want to give craft time a little pop and sizzle? Try this colorful painting craft that uses one of our favorite toys--a Koosh ball!

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.