School and Learning

To build this toy tambourine, all you need is a pie plate, some nails, and some bottle caps.

These activities will help your child make the connection between math and the real world.

Substitute these words in the songs "Old MacDonald" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and preschool hilarity will ensue.

These activities will help your child excellent practice with making and reading maps.

Use these estimating activities to reinforce your child's real-world math skills.

This activity will teach your preschool child about product origins. Why does milk come from nearby and bananas from far away?

Find all the shoes in your house, then build a shoe trail with your child. Can she identify all the red shoes?

Learn how to make a beanbag with your preschool child, then play a game with it!

In this activity, your preschool child will act out animal actions, while you try to guess the animal.

You can have lots of fun playing the classic childhood game of Red Light/Green Light with your child.

In this activity, you create colorful fish for your preschooler out of construction paper. Each fish carries an instruction for him to perform.

Try this classic American family activity -- enjoy a scavenger hunt with your kids.

Your preschool child can improve eye-hand coordination by sewing a shoelace through cardboard, .

Your preschool child can learn responsibility by helping you put the silverware away.

Need a rainy day distraction? When you tap glasses with your child, you make music!

This article lists the factors that can affect a child's handwriting skills.

Suggest a family activity to parents that focuses on the changing Earth and vocabulary words related to Earth.

Homework can increase dramatically in sixth grade. Here's what you should do.