Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

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

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Do human lie detectors exist? Charge up your powers of observation to see if you can tell a lie from the truth.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

This science fair experiment organizes made-up elements to simulate Mendeleev when he made the periodic table of elements.

This science fair project idea explores which fruit molds the fastest.

Kids make strong bubbles to investigate the effect different additives have on bubble life in this cool science fair project idea.

This science fair project idea recreates the movement of planetary bodies in order to learn why they sometimes appear to move backwards.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Show your fifth grade scientist how to create a siphon using two buckets, plastic tubing, and water. Watch her astonishment as the water travels uphill!

Construct and experiment with a periscope using reflected light rays to gather an image.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

By tracking nutritional information from candy wrappers, your teen can use statistics to find which treats offer the fewest tricks on Halloween!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

This advanced art project introduces kids to sewing techniques, and also slyly teaches geometry and measurement.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.