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Make some fabulously festive flan and get your child in the kitchen to teach him some tricks of the culinary trade as he makes this traditional Mexican treat.

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

These quick and easy pumpkin quesadillas are as delicious as they are nutritious. Celebrate Fall and the wonder squash that is the pumpkin!

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!

Bring the sea to your home with this marine life–inspired art project that displays beautifully when suspended from the ceiling.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Create groups of volunteers based on frequency of playing video games. Compare driving records. Analyze data, interpret findings.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Make a Canadian-Themed dinner with your child to celebrate the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

Help your teen analyze "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe, and then experiment with his poetry skills to create a version of his own.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Bring back the groovy memories by making shrinky dinks using household materials, while learning about the science of plastics. Here's how to get started:

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.