Help your aspiring fashion designer give new life to a pair of drab shoes with this colorful craft.

Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

In this science fair project, kids start a chemical reaction that will make a balloon inflate itself!

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

Dive into the world of cooking oil and smoke points to discover just how fast some oils start smoking.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to start thinking about jobs she'd like to learn more about and might consider for her future career.

Illustrate the importance of bicycle safety in this simple 5th grade science experiment. All you need to start are an egg, a Styrofoam ball, and rubber bands.

Frisbee golf is a game that incorporates the rules of golf with the fun of frisbee. Here's how to get started with your child:

Want a sugar-sculpted house, just like Hansel and Gretel found? Make a miniature version in this sweet geometry activity.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Learn about landscape painting—and artist Grandma Moses—in this engaging watercolor activity!

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

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

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.

Turn all those broken bits of plates, random buttons, or other odds and ends into a lovely flower pot for Mom on Mother's Day.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Encourage your child to explore color and its mood-altering effects by creating his own self portrait using only warm or cool colors.

Dress up the dining table with a sweet craft right in time for Valentine's Day.

Your child can transform a triangle of felt into a colorful and motivating pennant sharing all her favorite characteristics and traits.

What cause the phases of the moon? Make a model to see how the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth cause the crescent, gibbous, quarter, full, and new moon.

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.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

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

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