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Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

Want to help your child develop stronger numeracy skills and make your dice games even more fun? Try creating some googly-eyed funny dice.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

Make a yarmulke for your teddy bear and celebrate The Festival of Lights with this fun craft project.

Create a unique gift that is as useful as it is gorgeous by using eggshells, tempera paint and glue.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Children build a "Loving Kindness Garden" to represent what they have learned about love, mindfulness, and caring for others in community.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Add an ancient protective tool to your child's dress-up chest: the Viking shield!

Let your young chef whip up some cheer in the kitchen with these tasty and adorable chocolate trees snacks.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Your mother is a treasure, so celebrate her with a fun Motherâs Day Treasure Hunt.

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.