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Demonstrate that insects observe colors and choose favorites. Place colored pieces of construction paper on a flat, glassy surface, observe bug preference.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Demonstrate Newton's laws of motion by examining the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration during free-fall.

Found poetry is a great exercise for kids to practice seeing the beauty and humor in ordinary, everyday language.

Have a Twelfth Night celebration with this holiday tutorial and craft. Learn how to throw a Twelfth Night celebration in your house this winter.

Help your child explore this ancient art technique with the help of some tinfoil, black paint and the end of a paintbrush!

Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Get your middle schooler to explore symmetry and practice art and math measurements; have her draw the other half of a given face!

Science fair project that demonstrates how stalagmites and stalactites are formed.

Here's an activity that has your teenager or child upcycling empty cereal boxes to create a handy, one-of-a-kind notebook holder to keep her space organized.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Your child can twist and turn their way to creating a freestanding wire form! When they're done they can position and display their small statue wherever they want.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Follow these easy instructions to make a working sundial with your kid! Find out what other cool things the Aztecs created in this activity.

This dalmatian costume is simple for expert crafters and novice dog lovers alike. Make a dalmatian costume with your child for Halloween or play time.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

This Star of David craft is eco-friendly and will help your child practice basic geometry. Make a festive Star of David craft for Hanukkah.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Here's a fun game that will have your child hustling to find quotes to back up written assertions.