El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Put some spring back in the season and teach your child a little about plants with this fun paper flower art project!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Delight your second grader (and his best friend!) by showing him how to make a friendship collage jar project for someone special this holiday season.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Help your ambitious kindergartener imagine her bright future by creating a self-portrait collage of jobs she's interested in.

Collage this elegant spring-themed card that's sure to freshen someone's day!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Got a fussy eater on your hands? Here's a great way to make fruit appear more appealing, and make eating it a lot more fun, too!

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this activity, kids will create a peace corner in their bedroom or home and reflect on ways they may use their peace corner through drawing and discussion.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.