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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Follow these easy instructions to make a working sundial with your kid! Find out what other cool things the Aztecs created in this activity.

Let your child experiment with and experience mixed media art in this introductory art project.

Your child can be a Fauvist painter using bright colors and his imagination to create wild artwork!

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

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!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Celebrate autumn by making a beautiful pastel art piece with corn as its theme.

This science fair project idea explores how the shape of a boat affects its density and how much weight it can float.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Learn the art of symbolism with the colorful African flag that's great for a parade or a decoration.

Make a clay sculpture of a fall tree to celebrate the changing seasons and bring out the artist in your third grader.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Use a simple toothbrush and a splatter painting technique to create this sparkling skyline work of art!

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Not only a fun way to practice sewing, felt cupcakes make great gifts, party decorations, and doll accessories once theyâre finished

Help your crafty kid make rocket-shaped party favors to hand out to friends and family on Independence Day!

Learn more about the fascinating folk art of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs with this easy craft.