Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

Home made candles make for great home made gifts at Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays. Great presents for any special occasion!

This experiment explores how microwave radiation affects fungi, bacteria, and plant life.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Explore properties of liquids and how temperature and salinity effect surface tension of liquids in this fun- filled science fair project idea.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Science fair project idea helps conceptualize probability. Compare probabilities and outcomes of cards drawn from a standard playing deck.

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

Help your teen make a custom, handmade hula hoop. It's sure to fit perfectly, and she can personalize it with colored tape to make it her own!

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

How fast does light travel in different mediums? Kids conduct a cool refraction experiment in materials like water and air for this science fair project.

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

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Observe corn seed germination to learn about dicots and monocots and how plants grow from seeds to seedlings to full-grown plants!

This experiment evaluates whether a person's eye color affects their ability to identify colors in low light.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

In this experiment you simulate radioactive decay in order to gain an understanding of the basics of half-life.

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.