When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Your middle schooler will receive a boost in his creative writing skills and reflect on the importance of Christmas as he rewrites the Charles Dickens classic.

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Your child can learn more about Vincent van Gogh's influential style of painting by creating an homage to Starry Night, one his most beloved paintings.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.

Help your child understand surface tension by showing them how they can create a "skin" on top of water.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

Looking for way to help Japan? Start by making paper cranes! Learn how you and your child can show your support for Japan through the art of origami.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

The objective of this science fair project is to study the photosynthesis process and demonstrate the important role that leaves play in the process.

This pyramid card game is a fun way to help your child learn addition and subtraction. Best of all, itâs quick to set up and easy to play.

Does your kid love crafts AND food? Teach him to paint with natural dyes from food! He'll be amazed that food can be made into art, just like in ancient times.

Have your child create and decorate a paper plate frisbee that will keep them occupied for hours on end.

These DIY coasters are an easy-peasy, activity for small hands to manage, and a good way to get ready for summer, when cold drinks abound.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

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

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

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