Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask made from construction paper!

Full of charm and creative possibilities, this fun hat will be ready for playtime in no time.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Before you get ready for a delicious scramble or omelet, add a bit of science to your morning routine!

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

On a hot afternoon there is nothing better than a cold drink. Instead of making lemonade, your child can have lemon ice cubes ready to munch!

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.

These DIY coasters are an easy-peasy, activity for small hands to manage, and a good way to get ready for summer, when cold drinks abound.

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

Have an empty cereal box you're ready to toss in the bin? Help your child recycle that box into some wacky glasses in this fun craft!

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

Warm up your little one's counting skills with this adorable winter number-match game. Play until she's warmed up and ready to count all on her own!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.