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

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

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 second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Does your child love Roly, the orange cat from our Brainzy games? Create the perfect dress-up costume and bring your child’s dreams to life!

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Re-use old plastic food containers to create these uniquely beautiful stepping stones to embed in your backyard!

Help your child to invent her own chore-helper to help her put that growing imagination to good use!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

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

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!