This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

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.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

What better way to care for the earth than to create a Call to Action plan for the entire family?

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

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!

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

This science fair project examines how seeds hitchhike on animals and clothing.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Get kids to celebrate Earth Day by designing their very own junk truck.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.