Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Construct and experiment with a periscope using reflected light rays to gather an image.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that light travels in straight lines and experiments with reflecting light.

Using only straight-line sewing, your fourth can create a nifty felt pencil case perfect for his busy life.

Create a dramatic, elegant line drawing of a pumpkin in this white-on-black Halloween art project. 

Make a beautiful bowl out of printed lines of poetry that you can use to store everything from jewelery to candy.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Vincent van Gogh painted golden hued pictures of the harvest using bold lines and vibrant color. Your child can explore this style of art using oil pastels.

In this science experiment, do tensile strength test on fishing line, a strand of hair, a rubber band, and any other materials you're curious about!

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Sure, angles can be confusing. Here's a fun activity to brush up your child's knowledge of these geometry essentials.

Don't despair if numerators and denominators seem like a bore to your child. This colorful collage is sure to show him the brighter side of fractions.

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Here's an activity that has your teenager or child upcycling empty cereal boxes to create a handy, one-of-a-kind notebook holder to keep her space organized.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Combat summer boredom with this easy and fun game. Race against each other to see who can fill their bucket the fastest using leaky cups!

The goal of this project is to create an exciting topographical map out of dough.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Create a string of paper jack-o'-lanterns with this simple Halloween paper craft!

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Try a fun painting activity this Valentine's Day with your child. He can design abstract art and learn about color theory in an easy way!

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

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

How sensitive is your skin? Here's a fourth grade science experiment that lets your child figure it out.