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Here's a hands-on activity that helps your child understand the concept of "circumference."

Bring history to life by helping your child create her own cartouche like the Egyptians did thousands of years ago.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

This science fair project idea determines whether volunteers remember more information presented orally or visually or kinesthetically.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

This experiment evaluates whether the phenomenon of "choice blindness" occurs more often with men or women.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Your kindergarten artist will love practicing math and coloring when he makes his own unique paint-by-numbers! This activity is creative and educational.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Etch designs into discs of plaster of Paris using a traditional whaler technique to create a beautiful artisan necklace.

Make homemade glitter to add glamor and glitz to art projects galore.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Ever wonder where paint comes from? This recipe works well with preschoolers because of its consistency and its natural nontoxicity.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

This experiment investigates if small changes in your diet can alter your basal body temperature.

Test for a correlation between perceived color and heart rate. Using a stethoscope and stop watch, measure the heart rate (beats per minute) of volunteers.

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"