Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Handedness and footedness refer to whether people prefer to use their left or right hand and foot. In this experiment, test hand and foot dominance.

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

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.

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

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

Make a friendship bracelet with your child this Mother's Day or the next time they are looking for a fun project to do!

Learn about the role of Earth's rotation on the Coriolis Effect and hurricanes in this science project. Model the Coriolis Effect on a hurricane's direction.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Make a Duct Tape Wallet: This activity provides kids great practice in following directions and makes for a fun homemade gift.

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.

Who wants to take a boring paper bag to school -- just to throw away as soon as the bell rings -- when you can create a reusable lunch bag out of fleece?

Take your child's knowledge of shapes out of the classroom and into the real world!

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

This science fair project idea examines whether plants are still able to grow normally if they are turned upside-down.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Discover whether a metal will expand under hot water.

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

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

The goal of this science fair experiment is to demonstrate the effects of air pressure on objects and analyze applications of air pressure principles.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.