Here's a guide to help you design a challenging pool obstacle course for your elementary school children with ordinary pool toys and household objects.

Home made candles make for great home made gifts at Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays. Great presents for any special occasion!

On the next chilly, winter day, invite your fifth grader to make a hand warmer by experimenting with the loaded combination of a few natural ingredients.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

Spiders may be creepy, crawly and sometimes frightening, but not this little fella. He's fun to make and sure will cause a lot of giggling!

This op art craft project turns out eye-popping abstract art! Your kid can flex her creativity to make op art with a few household items in her fave colors.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here's an entertaining ball game filled with spins, jumps, and claps to keep your child having fun while you get a moment to yourself.

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Now you can have baby chicks around any time of year, with this simple egg carton craft idea.

Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

This science project teaches students to classify different shapes of leaves.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Create a fun hands-on game to practice long division, using magnetic numbers on a fridge.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Hisss! Make a snake pet from a recycled cardboard tube! Transport your child into nature with this fun and easy craft.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Make a brilliant bouquet for dad on his special day. This Father's Day craft unique flowers that remind dad of his favorite sports team.

Help your second grader craft some lovely, personalized Valentine's Day cards--out of kitchen materials!