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Students need to have fun with learning to stay motivated. To keep students happy while making the most of precious instruction time, let students play games that are quick to set up, like toothpick puzzles. An arts and crafts activity that requires minimal set up but keeps students motivated for a long time is making their own paper plate clock.

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Turn Salt Water into Drinking Water

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Make Your Own Soap

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Make a Triangle-Circle Clown

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Separate Salt and Pepper With Static Electricity

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Write with a Quill Pen

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Bread Mold Experiment

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

Probability Dice Game

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Let your kid have fun painting by blowing the paint around on the paper rather than using a paintbrush. The result will be a fabulously abstract piece of art!

Make a Parachute Toy

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Patriotic Pinwheel

This hands-on activity uses just a few ordinary supplies to create an extra-fun 4th of July craft.

Make Rice Pictures

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Volcano Project

Your child will be hooked on chemistry after she builds a model volcano by combining an acid and an alkaline substance.

How to Make a Wind Vane

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Homemade Kaleidoscope

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

Homemade Lava Lamp

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't - a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Homemade Thermometer

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to complement what he's learning about this instrument in school.

Human Knot Game

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Make Four Season Trees!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Bake a Chemistry Cake

Here's an experiment that will have your child experimenting with cake ingredients to learn about the chemical reactions that happen when a cake's in the oven.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Make a Straw Skeleton

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Oobleck Science: Solid or Liquid?

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Run Around the Numbers

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help him learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

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