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Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Your child can celebrate St. Patrick's Day by creating this textured clover made from tissue paper.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

This study evaluates if electronic devices commonly found in most households emit radiation, and if they do, how much?

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Create an outer space painting with chalk, water and black paper in this art project that explores the solar system.

Learn how to make onigiri, a popular Japanese snack.

This simple Veterans Day craft is a great way to have your kid work on her drawing skills and put her vocabulary to the test too!

What causes dilated pupils? Young scientists will find out by applying what they already know about changes in pupil size and making models of the pupil.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this sweet mint-flavored milkshake you and your child can make together.

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

This math game helps fourth graders improve their understanding of positive and negative integers in a fun way.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Halloween bingo is a fun Halloween word and symbol activity for ghosts and ghouls of all ages. Play Halloween bingo this October to get into the spooky spirit.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Fireworks are such an exciting part of part of summer festivities, but it's sad when the show is over. Keep them alive all year long with watercolor fireworks.

These paper Scandinavian tiles are simple to create, and they make for a beautiful and unique keepsake.

Here's a sweet holiday recipe to make with your fifth grader: bake scrumptious sugar-dusted chocolate snowballs! Serve them at your next Christmas party.

This tissue paper painting activity has been developed especially with special needs children in mind, but is an enjoyable craft for just about anyone.