Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine the rate at which participants can respond to different patterns.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

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.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

The goal of this science fair project was to examine how different angles of decline affect the tipping point of a vehicle.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!