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Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Does your kid love animals, especially wild ones like tigers and bears? With this fun and easy project your child can craft his own animal puppets and go wild!

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

For a cool art project, help your child create a "Me Timeline," a unique poster that works on a key math and social studies skill: putting events in order.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Chicken souse is a delicious dish native to the Caribbean. Much like American chicken soup, souse contains meat, broth and vegetables but with an island twist.

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.