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Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills she's learning in second grade math, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

This countdown to Christmas craft is fun for kids who are excited for the holiday. Countdown to Christmas with this fun holiday activity.

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.