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Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Using only the elements in your backyard, make paintbrushes with your child and create truly homemade works of art.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Make your own ribbon to give gifts that special touch. Enlist your preschooler or kindergartener to help create an extra special holiday ribbon this winter.

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

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

Gather your child's old artwork together into a bookmark, a perfect gift to retain these memories long after kindergarten is over.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

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.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Does your child love Roly, the orange cat from our Brainzy games? Create the perfect dress-up costume and bring your child’s dreams to life!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Your child can help eliminate stress for himself or a loved one by creating a colorful, homemade stress ball.

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

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

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.

Your kindergartener will be delighted to refine his motor and conceptual skills as he creates his own Maccabee shield in honor of the Maccabee revolt.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.