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.

Show your child how to make homemade wrapping paper with a twist by using sponge art to create the fabulous designs. Here's how:

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

This baking activity lets kids play with frosting, while experimenting with colors, and how they mix.

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Here's how you and your child can work together to craft your own story problems from scratch.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Teach your child how to make her own buzzer using only a button and a string.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

Make a passport suitcase and keep track of all the places you've traveled together as a family. Here's how:

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

In this fun activity, kids learn how to make their own bravery badges so they can be brave anytime they want.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Here's how to make a princess dress out of a long skirt in a fabric she likes.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Help your child chart how much he has grown over his school break by creating his own tree-shaped Summer Growth Chart.