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Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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.

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

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

What's your problem? I'll show you my math if you show me yours! Critical thinking and computation skills are the focus of this strategic math card game.

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.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

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.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

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.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Invite your child to partake in an eco-friendly craft by weaving long twigs into a useful kitchen stand for hot pots and pans.

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.

Make your own wrapping paper with some materials from around the house. Try to make your own wrapping paper this year for a unique presentation for your gifts.

Your child can add bling to her bike with bicycle basket decorations, making her bike a stylish ride!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

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

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

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

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.