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Activity: Make your own piñata!
This project takes a bit of planning, but will be as fun to break as it is to make.
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Activity: Personalized puzzles
Make puzzles out of pictures your budding photographer has taken.
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Activity: How do you teach painting?
This activity will give your child the opportunity to express feelings and unleash their imaginations.
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Activity: In Monet's garden
Introduce your budding art historian to Impressionism using books, the Internet and museums as tools.
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Activity: Painted rooms
Let your child explore the different art movements in history with this activity that focuses on depictions of interior spaces.
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Activity: Musical history
Let music guide your child through time and give feelings to history.
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Activity: Classical fun
Enhance your child's imagination and learning processes through exposure to music.
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Activity: Reuse the news
This activity is perfect for demonstrating the recycling process.
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Activity: Tie-dye tees
Peace, man. This creative activity will splash color into your child's world.
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Activity: Boxes o' fun
This fun art project will also help keep your child’s toys, treasures and tools organized.
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Activity: Paper beads
Your child can create unique beads out of paper for jewelry making or decorations.
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Activity: Paper maché bowls
Let your child create small paper maché bowls for serving snacks or holding tiny treasures.
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Activity: Stained glass windows
Your child can fill the room with dazzling colors by creating these easy stained "glass" windows.
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Activity: Window on the world
Gaze into your child's imagination through this art activity that has your child create a window showing his view of the world.
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Activity: Animated flipbook
Creating a flipbook will bring your young artist's creations to life.
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Activity: Fancy frames
Let your child create colorful picture frames that show off his artistic masterpieces or favorite family photographs.
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Activity: Food prints
Making colorful prints with food is a fun way for your child to make an impression.
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Activity: Floral bookmarks
Help your child create a bookmark that will be a year-round reminder of spring flowers and summer strolls.
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Activity: Secret codes
Your secret agent will learn logic and problem solving by building this secret decoder wheel.
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Activity: Concentration
The favorite matching game can be tailored to practice a variety of skills.
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Activity: Technicolor talk
Challenge your child's imagination by asking him to contemplate his feelings and associations with color.
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Activity: Cubism in the kitchen
Bring out the little Picasso in your child with this art activity.
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Activity: Take a bow!
Acting out a poem or story is a great way for a child to demonstrate comprehension and to connect emotion with the written word.
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Activity: Creative wrappings
Let your child use their imaginations while making gift giving more personal.
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Activity: Boxes o' fun
This fun art project will also help keep your child’s toys, treasures and tools organized.
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Activity: Blowin' in the wind
Your child will know which way the wind blows after she creates a colorful windsock.
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Activity: Festive candle holders
These decorative crafts can be tailored to any holiday.
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Activity: Scratchboard painting
This activity allows your child to scratch the surface on the fascinating world of art.
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Activity: Crack the Code
Challenge your little sleuth with one of these secret code ideas.
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Activity: Fashioning fairy tales
Have your child create illustrations or fashion arts and crafts that illustrate Grimms' Fairy Tales.
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Activity: Adjectives abound
Enjoy discovering adjectives with this easy game using on your child's favorite books and stories.
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Activity: Build blends
Play this fun word game to practice consonant blends and digraphs.
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Activity: Suffix charades
Use charades to demonstrate to your child how adding a different suffix can change the meaning of a word.
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Activity: Word wheel
Demonstrate to your child how adding the letter E to the end of a word can create a completely new word.
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Activity: Blended beginnings
Familiarize your child with common consonant blends.
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Activity: Concentration: Antonyms
Play the classic card matching game, Concentration, to help your child recognize antonyms.
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Activity: Concentration: Rhyming
Play the classic card matching game, Concentration, to help your child recognize words that rhyme.
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Activity: Sentence shuffle
Play this card shuffle game to teach your child sentence structure.
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Activity: Acrostic poem
Use each letter in your child's name to inspire poetry.
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Activity: Haiku
Help your child write haiku about the things he loves in nature.
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Activity: On the farm
Be there to help your child create an illustrated book of sentences she has built up from a single word.
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Activity: Aesop’s Fables
The fabulous world of fables is ready to inspire your young author to become a fabulist.
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Activity: Recipe for creativity
Your child’s imagination will be the main ingredient when he creates his own “recipes” for this activity.
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Activity: Shuffle stories
Let the luck of the draw help shape your child's storytelling skills.
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Activity: Picture puzzles
This activity is a fun, creative way for your child to gain experience building compound words.
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Activity: If I were the President…
Encourage your child to learn the duties of government by asking her what she would do if she were in charge.
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Activity: Patterns
Help your child develop her ability to recognize and imitate patterns.
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Activity: Dear Mr. President
Have your child write a letter to the President. It's a great way for her to gain writing practice and learn about current events.
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Activity: Thinking on your feet
Exercise your child's imagination and body.
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Activity: Word Stretch
Stretch your imagination with this family-friendly word game.
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Activity: Dog-tionary
Here's a creative writing activity: write a "dog-tionary" to define words from a canine perspective.
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Photo Mysteries
There's a mystery afoot in your neighborhood! With a camera, notebook, and an active imagination, your child will be a super (writing and reading) sleuth!
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Activity: More or less
Play this easy card game to teach your child number recognition and number value.
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Activity: Dimes & pennies, tens & ones
Dimes and pennies are perfect for illustrating place value in two-digit numbers.
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Activity: Super sums
Supercharge your child's number recognition and addition skills with this card game.
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Activity: Penny toss
Get both target practice and math practice with a fun indoor game.
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Activity: Under my hat
It's no trick. This hat game is perfect for addition and subtraction practice.
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Activity: Up to 19
Which group has more? How many more? Show your child that subtraction is a tool for making accurate comparisons.
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Activity: Inverse flash cards
Supply your child with a stack of additon equations, then have her write the inverse subtraction facts for them.
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Activity: Make 100
Deal your young mathematician a winning hand with this card game.
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Activity: Red roses
Watch your child's addition skills bloom with this fun game.
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Activity: Up to 20
Use snacks to create number groups that equal up to 20.
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Activity: Rain gauge
Your little meteorologist can build a rain gauge to help him deliver his own weather reports.
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Activity: If I were the President…
Encourage your child to learn the duties of government by asking her what she would do if she were in charge.
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Activity: Bats in a cave - Grades 1-2
Don't be afraid to develop your spooky number sense!
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Activity: Starlight, star bright
Encourage your child’s wonder in the universe around us.
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Activity: Summer buggin’
Inspire your young scientist to explore the variety of insects living in our world.
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Activity: Taxonomy
Further your child’s interest in animals while gaining practice in sorting and classifying.
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Activity: Farmers’ market
Take a field trip with your child and explore how food gets to the dinner table.
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Activity: Plastic Bag Parachute
Bring learning in for a landing! Let your young engineer design her own miniature parachutes.
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Activity: Magnetic puppetry
Turn science into theater with this activity.
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Activity: High and low
Investigate the science of sound with your child.
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Activity: Megaphone magic
Let this experiment sound loud and clear for your child.
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Activity: Ooze!
Introduce your child to chemistry. Help him create a suspension and investigate its properties.
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Activity: Solar oven
Help your child harvest the power of the sun and cook some simple snacks.
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Activity: Rain gauge
Your little meteorologist can build a rain gauge to help him deliver his own weather reports.
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Activity: Weather vane
You r child will know which way the wind blows after building this meteorology tool.
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Activity: Pop! Pop!
This home science experiment explodes with fun and flavor.
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Activity: Will it float?
Use this simple experiment to introduce your child to essential science skills
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Activity: Dino-Mite!
Help your young scientist create his own additions to the fossil record.
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Activity: Phew!
Use this activity to explore with your child how sweat cools us down when our body temperature rises.
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Activity: Zoo time
Research your child's favorite animals, then follow up with a fun visit to the zoo.
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Activity: Tweet Tweets - Homemade Bird Feeder
Create some tasty treats for the wildlife in your child’s own backyard.
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Activity: Turn a leaf
Have your child collect leaves outside, then make a book identifying the different types.
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Activity: Magnificent Micro World
Small things look really cool with a magnifying glass.
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Activity: African safari
Play traditional games and hear stories from other parts of the world to increase geographic literacy.
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Activity: Weather vane
You r child will know which way the wind blows after building this meteorology tool.
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Activity: White House pet-igree
Use research on the pets of our Presidents to introduce your child to government.
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Activity: Dear Mr. President
Have your child write a letter to the President. It's a great way for her to gain writing practice and learn about current events.
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Activity: If I were the President…
Encourage your child to learn the duties of government by asking her what she would do if she were in charge.
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Activity: Here You Are
Draw a map of the room for your kids and off they go.
