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Encourage your child to take a page from Bridget Riley and the op art movement, and see if she can create an optical illusion in her artwork.

Help your child craft her first pair of knitting needles out of recycled chopsticks!

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

Teenagers across the country are getting involved in the issues they care about, and your child shouldn't be the exception to the rule.

Geometric shapes can often be tough to remember. But, with a little bit of art, imagination, and writing, practicing geometry has never been so much fun!

Stringing beads helps develop the hand-eye coordination kids need to write, and noodles are sized just right for junior jewelry-makers.

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

In this activity, you can spend time with your child while creating your own gift tags.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

This science fair project idea determines whether volunteers remember more information presented orally or visually or kinesthetically.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Here's a social studies activity to help your middle-school or high-school teenager better understand how contour maps work using only the back of her hand.

Is your kindergartener getting tired of the standard art supplies? How about making a mosaic? This recipe is kinder safe, no broken glass involved!

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Celebrate Easter with this hands-on activity making your own eggs.

Show your kindergartener how to craft a pretty Mother's Day jewelry box that's fit for the baubles of a queen (or at least an extra special mom)!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Try making your own conch planter in this decorative shell.