Entertainment and Activities

Have your child draw pictures describing how to use a certain appliance or object.

Organize an at-home science fair and invite everyone in the family to show off their science skills.

Look at a globe with your child and plan the perfect trip together.

Have your child create sound bites for articles whose headlines have been removed.

Have your child and friends pretend to be a President from the past, mingling at a party.

This activity challenges your child to describe a movie or book in as few words as possible.

This activity strengthens research and speaking skills. Your child will have to research different periods of time, and then give a lecture on them.

Have your child pretend to be a mouse and describe how he sees the world from the mouse's point of view.

Have your child pretend she is a chef at a great restaurant, where she has to make up her own menu of foods to serve.

You and your child can have lots of fun with this quick storytelling activity, in which you create a story on the fly.

This activity allows your child to observe several objects and describe how they might be connected.

Pick your child's brain to see what he would do if his dominant hand was changed from right to left, or from left to right.

This simple kitchen activity will help your child build her shape-recognition skills.

Do your kids spend the summer complaining of boredom? Prevent summer sluggishness by providing them with fun acitvities and interesting projects. Use summer as an opportunity to get creative and get moving!

This skill-building activity will help your child feel comfortable with public speaking.

This imagination activity asks your child to choose an everyday item and then tell you what that object has to say.

Your children will have lots of fun making road signs and turning your house into a busy highway.