Here's how to create an easy travel checkers board that you are your child can enjoy together using simple materials.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

This science fair project examines how tsunamis travel by simulating a tsunami moving around an island. You will generate a pretend tsunami in a swimming pool.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Make a passport suitcase and keep track of all the places you've traveled together as a family. Here's how:

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Has your child ever told you he wants to travel the world and meet new people? Why not keep track of his future travel plans with some fun footprint art.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

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.