Magic, science, or household cleanser? Let your second grader decide with this practical, nontoxic chemistry experiment with acids and bases.

Celebrate African-American history with your child by cooking up peanut soup, a dish rooted in African-American culture.

Make healthy eating a manageable (and yummy) task for your kindergartener by encouraging her to help you make a healthy apple sauce snack!

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Here's a fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make homemade clay bead jewelry. All you need is flour, cornstarch, and salt to get started.

The objective of this science fair project is to study the photosynthesis process and demonstrate the important role that leaves play in the process.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

Practice counting to five with your child while making this adorably "scary" ghost to celebrate Halloween.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Show your love of nature with this pretty vase made with vines. It will be perfect for holding a floral bouquet!

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.