Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

Here's a guide to help you design a challenging pool obstacle course for your elementary school children with ordinary pool toys and household objects.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

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.

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This science fair project idea explores the fastest average speed a human can talk.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Let your fifth grader get in touch with this inner chef by making these delicious no-bake nanaimo bars--named after a city in Canada.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Test of the effect of exercise on rote memory. Prepare a single list of 40 randomly chosen words. Have volunteers recall as many words as possible.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.