Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

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

Dive into the world of cooking oil and smoke points to discover just how fast some oils start smoking.

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.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to start thinking about jobs she'd like to learn more about and might consider for her future career.

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.

Illustrate the importance of bicycle safety in this simple 5th grade science experiment. All you need to start are an egg, a Styrofoam ball, and rubber bands.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

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.

Frisbee golf is a game that incorporates the rules of golf with the fun of frisbee. Here's how to get started with your child:

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!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

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!