Activities : Page 33

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This underwater painting is as colorful as it is fun!

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

For a fun activity that will have lasting effects, make this time capsule with your high school child, to be opened after college graduation.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Your kids will love this tradition of finding a leprechaun's gold hidden all over.

Prepare your child for winter with a fake igloo and a list of cozy and chilly vocabulary words.

In this cool sound resonance experiment, learn about frequency and pitch, and use a tuning fork to calculate sound velocity in air.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Your kindergartener will delight in creating this "handcrafted" sweatshirt for Grandma and Grandpa this holiday season, filled with her colorful handprints.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

This experiment will determine how different kinds of light affects the strength of bakerâs yeast.

Does your child have what it takes to be the world's first paper chef?

Enjoy the sparkle of a fresh snowfall whether or not the weather outside is chilly enough for snow.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

This science fair project idea demonstrates the process of land erosion.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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