Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Help your child create an adorable -- or gruesome -- miniature pumpkin candle holder that will shed some tiny pools of light on your dining table or counter.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

A round scoop of vanilla ice cream, red sprinkles, and bat and glove cookies are all it takes to make a baseball-themed treat.

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

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

Here's a fun math activity for your preschooler: play Sock Sort and help your pre-kindergartener recognize numbers!

Looking for a fun way to remember your child's small handprints that doesn't involve tired turkeys or tubs of wet cement?

Bake a delicious cherry pie in remembrance of one of country's most famous presidents -- George Washington!

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

This science fair project idea investigates the ability of different whitening toothpastes to whiten teeth.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

In this experiment, you'll make a seafloor spreading model to learn more about how plate tectonics work and create mid-ocean ridges.

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate different ways to generate static electricity and record its effects.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Transform a brown paper grocery bag into a hat in this arts and crafts activity!

Did you know that witches are a very popular Halloween costume? This October the 31st, your child will learn how to create their very own decorative witch hat.

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.

This paper heart craft is a simple Valentine's Day activity that gets kids to exercise their fine-motor skills. Make a paper heart craft with your child this February.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

How does your ghost feel? No, no, we're not wondering if it's happy or sad, joyful or mad. We want to know your ghost's texture!

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.