Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Dress up a plain old pen with this pretty craft that's great for back-to-school time.

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

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

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

Reuse old Christmas cards by showing your fourth grader how to weave strips of them together to create new and unique woven holiday cards!

Don't throw that Sunday paper away just yet! If you've got a kid who thinks she's "too old" for crafts, introduce her to beautifully simple newspaper flowers.

Create a chunky, textured, tactile giraffe collage that is cute enough to pet! This is a great way to recycle old arts and crafts materials.

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

Are you tired of the same old Easter egg dying routine? Does your kid love to try new art techniques? If so, try making Easter eggs out of embroidery floss!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Make over an old shirt that's destined for the thrift shop with this heart cut-out craft for Valentine's Day.

Upcycle an old dress shirt into artsy bow with just a few simple sewing techniques.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

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

Don't throw out all those old artworks! Your child can transform them into a fun and exciting paper circle garland she can use for decorating her room.

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

Discover a way to take old denim out of your child's closet without removing it from her life with this beautiful recycled craft.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Help your child create a mosaic mirror frame that's a bit modern and a bit vintage at the same time. All she needs are a dollar store frame and an old CD!

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Rid your family of that pile of old Christmas cards once and for all! Show your child how to create a nifty 8-sided ornament using his favorite holiday images.

This science fair project idea observes products available in the school cafeteria and waste produced by these products.