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Help your middle schooler "map" her complicated day. It's a simple job with big payoffs that will last all through the year!

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Get into the back-to-school spirit with this clip magnet that'll make sure your first grader never loses his important school papers again!

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

As your child heads back to school this fall, dust off those elementary math skills with our creative calendar activity!

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Here's a homemade bulletin board project to help your fourth grader's school year start off right.

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

The start of a new school year is always a great time to decorate a locker. Here's a way to help your middle schooler get off to an organized, stylish start!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!