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Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

Use pepper and soap to discover some fun facts about the properties of water.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Here's a fun science experiment that's refreshingly tasty too! Turn regular water into a tasty treat perfect for consuming on a hot day.

The project presents a tactile way to paint using water beads! The result will be a beautiful, expressionistic work of art.

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Introduce your little one to the joys of gardening with this adorable do-it-yourself planter made from clothespins.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

Decorated with glittery spiderwebs that sparkle like dew in the sun, these handmade note cards make great thank you cards or simply "thinking of you" cards.

Have your child experiment with layering by creating a feathered friend to celebrate warmer weather.