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Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Have your kid determine if a goldfish can be conditioned to expect food the same way Pavlov's dogs did with this fascinating science fair project.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Celebrate spring -- and take care of a little spring cleaning -- with this creative craft that turns a single sock into an adorable rabbit.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

To make this unique Valentine's Card, all your child will need is his creative mind, some paper, and a pencil.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

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

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Greeting cards are nice, but after they've been opened most cards soon end up in the trash. This year, make Dad a Father's Day card he'll treasure forever.

This science fair project idea provides evidence that air is everywhere and takes up space.

This fun calculator exercise will take the mystery away from the machine, and familiarize your child with the functions of a calculator.

Find out whether packaged seeds actually do expire in this new science fair project idea.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Science fair project idea examines validity of mood ring predictions. Analyze accuracy of results, consider the impact of temperature

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

Demonstrate how you can make your own compass using a magnetized needle. It also allows you to compare magnetic north and geographic north.

Explore if planting seeds in a certain direction will affect how fast it germinates.

Show your fourth grader how to design and print his own chop, a Chinese "signature" of sorts that uses calligraphic characters or motifs.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?