Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

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!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Is cleaning with lemon effective? Get ready to give this science project some elbow grease and find out if acidic lemons can be used as a cleaning agent.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

Try this fun math card game with your third grader to practice division, addition, and problem solving!

Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a water bottle.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

In this arts and crafts activity, you and your child will create colorful three-dimensional artwork using scrunched-up fabric pieces.

What do you get when you cross a pool, water balloons and hula hoops? Pool Basketball, an exciting summer game perfect for kids of all ages.

The proportion game combines chance with math skills and is a perfect way for your third grader to become more familiar with equivalent fractions.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

Discover a way to take old denim out of your child's closet without removing it from her life with this beautiful recycled craft.

Make environmentally friendly, chemical-free toothpaste using one of the most common, inexpensive pantry staples in the American kitchen: baking soda.