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Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This experiment evaluates if the temperature of the environment that you work in affects your ability to perform mental tasks.

This experiment observes inattentional blindness and investigates whether certain age groups or genders are more likely to demonstrate this phenomenon.

Use applied math to model orbital eccentricity in this cool science fair project for 7th grade.

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.

Popcorn bracelets are a fun, easy activity that will engage children who will eat as they play.

Here's a fun game to practice strategies for acing the Reading Comprehension section of the SAT.

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

Transform an old chair into a chalkboard canvas! This painting activity is a useful and creative way to add some quirky charm to your existing furniture.

Bring the crisscrossing lines of highways and the sprawling webs of metropolitan cities to your dinner table!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

It's not always bad to think negatively -- step into the creative and unique world of negative space drawing!

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.