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Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Inspired by colorful African drums and crafted from recyclable materials, these pencil holders will make a bold and charming addition to any desk set.

If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

This fun activity will have your child creating a Halloween-themed bookmark to use throughout the Halloween season. All they have to do is follow the directions on the legend!

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.

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!)

Have a Twelfth Night celebration with this holiday tutorial and craft. Learn how to throw a Twelfth Night celebration in your house this winter.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

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

Crayons aren't just good for creating colorful masterpieces -- they're also great for science!

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.