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Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Help your child honor her grandpa this Father's Day by creating an original photo essay just for him.

Your fourth grader can have fun and get creative this winter by creating a colorful winter weather collage.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

This Sephardic meat pie features ground beef, mashed potato, onions, and spices simmered in a hearty gravy and then baked in matzoh crust.

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Teach your fifth grader an important math concept with this quick and simple activity that shows them how to divide whole numbers by fractions.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

At your next Valentine's Day celebration, your fifth grader can show family and friends she loves them with some fresh, fruity drinks--made from scratch!

Get inspired by the summer skies for a delicious parfait that looks as good as it tastes!

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Celebrate Easter brunch with these flaky, delicious, and--yes--healthy whole wheat "bunny biscuits."

Pretty fluttery feather earrings add a light touch to any outfit. Your child will float on air knowing she made the earrings herself.