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Looking for way to help Japan? Start by making paper cranes! Learn how you and your child can show your support for Japan through the art of origami.

Recycle a baby jar to make this beautiful votive with your second grader! This arts and crafts project is a fun, colorful activity and makes a great gift.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Build a 3d animal cell model with this cool science fair project, which helps kids visualize and understand the function of a cell's parts and organelles.

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Illustrate the importance of bicycle safety in this simple 5th grade science experiment. All you need to start are an egg, a Styrofoam ball, and rubber bands.

Build your child's math skills with this 2nd-3rd grade activity. Similar to a carnival toss, this egg carton toss game is sure to provide hours of fun.

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

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

Your fifth grader will have a blast sewing this plush neck pillow--and he'll sure be glad to have it on long car or airplane trips!

In this science fair project, students examine under what conditions individual plants release seeds and how far the seeds are released.

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.

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Check out this sweet recipe idea perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot initiate a domino effect.

This activity challenges your student to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking to program multiple robots.

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

Popcorn pops get a Valentine's Day twist with pink popcorn and a red candy center. Make popcorn pops as a special treat for Valentine's Day or any day.

In this social emotional learning activity, children will practice problem solving with kind attention as they play math games, participate in a mindfulness session, and create a work of art to help get them in touch with their "lion mind."

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.