You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Measure temperature change over time using a variety of insulation materials. Be creative with insulation materials: scarves, yarn, socks, feathers, oil, etc

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

This science fair project idea examines various dead zones and investigates the cause and how it can be fixed.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Learn how to make a homemade ladybug costume, a quick and easy costume solution for kids of any age.

Ask your fourth grader to jazz up the family kitchen by creating this adorable clothespin giraffe to sit on the counter and hold recipe cards.

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

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

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Your beginning teen baker will enjoy the tactile experience of baking this challah bread. It's deceptively simple to make!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice a mindfulness and forgiveness visualization and write a letter to someone with whom they've had a minor conflict and would like to forgive.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!

Understanding how to add and subtract integers can be a challenge at first, but once you know how to handle the heat, it's a breeze!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.