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

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Invite your child to partake in an eco-friendly craft by weaving long twigs into a useful kitchen stand for hot pots and pans.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Make your own wrapping paper with some materials from around the house. Try to make your own wrapping paper this year for a unique presentation for your gifts.

Your child can add bling to her bike with bicycle basket decorations, making her bike a stylish ride!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

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.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Show your third grader how to craft his own version of the symbolic Olympic rings using some easy-to-find art supplies!

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

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

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

In this project, you'll build a model of the earth, complete with all seven continents and four major oceans.