Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

In this science fair project, kids start a chemical reaction that will make a balloon inflate itself!

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Give your fourth grader a head start in poetry with a simile writing activity that guides him in crafting a cute poem about the beloved family pet.

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.

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!

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.

Make a planter full of delicious seasonings and classic grilling vegetables, great for a Fatherâs Day gift or a fun start-of-summer outdoor activity.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Want to go paperless this holiday season? Here's a delicious way to get your third grader started (and practice some writing in the process!)

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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

Your third grader will strengthen her hand-eye coordination as she creates and plays her very own take-anywhere pinball game!

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Eating a healthy breakfast starts the day out right, and your child can make something tasty and nutritious while honing her culinary skills!

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Practice math facts with your third grader was never so simple! This activity makes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even division a lot more fun!

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

This op art craft project turns out eye-popping abstract art! Your kid can flex her creativity to make op art with a few household items in her fave colors.