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

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Use pepper and soap to discover some fun facts about the properties of water.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

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

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

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.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Kids will make a beautiful rainbow in a jar and learn what enables different types of liquids to remain distinct in separate layers.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!