This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

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.

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Make a "hands-on" barbecue apron for Dad this Father's Day!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

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!

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practice self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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