Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

This watercolor landscape creates the background for the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood by using spooky silhouettes for the characters.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Need to cool down on a hot summer night? This gazpacho recipe does the trick.

Teach your child the colors of the rainbow while creating an impressive treat that will brighten up the whole kitchen.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

To make this unique Valentine's Card, all your child will need is his creative mind, some paper, and a pencil.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

For some good "green" fun, pull out your blender. A spinach smoothie?! You better believe it! And kids will not only slurp it up, they"ll beg for seconds.

The objective of this science fair project is to investigate salt water density.