Did you even wonder why some rocks are round and smooth while others are broken up into small pieces?

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Make math fun and easy with this activity that challenges your child to use their addition and multiplication skills to win a race!

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Skip store-bought jewelry and show your stylish kid how to make her own beaded bracelets.

Are you looking for a fun craft for the next big American holiday? Make this hat with your kid and let him march around the room like a Revolutionary soldier!

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

In this science experiment, do tensile strength test on fishing line, a strand of hair, a rubber band, and any other materials you're curious about!

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.