Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Why spend money on fingerpaint when you can make your own? With this recipe, you can stew up your kid's favorite colors right in your kitchen.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Has your preschooler ever wanted to be a pirate? This fun activity will put her healthy imagination into action!

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

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Help your fourth grade scientist practice measurement, and make a scrumptious, healthy summer cheesecake in the process!

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

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

In this easy and fun animal craft, make a cute pig nose using recycled egg cartons!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Celebrate the changing seasons with this fun, hands-on art activity that will teach your child about the different colors of the seasons.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.