Get inspired by nature and use recycled materials to create unforgettable pencil holders in time for the back to school season.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

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.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Use playing cards to learn about temperature as well as positive and negative integers in this fourth grade math game.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

Help your child honor her grandpa this Father's Day by creating an original photo essay just for him.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Measure the densities of various fruits and vegetables to determine if there is a relationship between density and nutritional value.

This imaginative shape activity will introduce your kindergartener to the world of shape and color while building basic math skills.

Explore the changing seasons with your preschooler by helping her create a cork-stamped masterpiece.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Celebrate the gooey goodness of peanut butter with a yummy treat your young chef can whip together himself.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

In this unique 5th grade arts and crafts project, your budding artist can imitate ancient rock art by creating his own petroglyphs on sandpaper with crayons.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

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

Looking for a healthy dessert? Find one with these yummy baked apples.

Work with your child's sense of fun by making this interesting snack, where playing with healthy food gets your child eating it