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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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Create Line Design Prints

Teach your child how to create lots and lots of line designs by wrapping string around wooden blocks, and using them to create line-filled prints.

Play an ABC Balloon Game

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Curds and Whey: A Milky Experiment

Have you or your child ever heard that nursery rhyme and wondered just what curds and whey are anyway? Do this simple experiment together to find out!

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

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.

Make a Cereal Box House

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Firework Science

Put your second grade scientist to work this Fourth of July with our colorful "liquid fireworks" project!

Multiplication War

Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set.

Write a Letter to Your Future Self

Invite your high schooler to author a letter to his future self about his goals and perspective on life, and then give it to him to review at graduation!

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.

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

Cause and Effect Card Game Activity

This cause and effect activity brings the fun of card games and comprehension practice together in an innovative 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.

Oobleck Science: Solid or Liquid?

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

Underwater I Spy Alphabet Bottle

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your preschool child busy, while helping her recognize letters in a creative way.

Balloon Air Pressure Magic

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Suncatcher Craft

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Density Demonstration

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

Basic Reading Comprehension

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Play Ice Cream Addition!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

The Science of Sound

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Bungee Jump ... With Eggs!

Invite your middle schooler to bungee jump ... with eggs! This experiment will demonstrate Newton's laws of physics in an entertaining way.

States of Matter in a Baggie

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Play a Matching Game: Numbers

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

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