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Forget expensive store bought cards, this handmade card truly delivers--and it helps your preschooler with letter recognition.

Make a string art tree to celebrate the holiday season with your kid. This string art tree craft allows you make a unique decoration using simple ingredients.

Will the shape of an ice cube impact how fast the ice melts?

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Use an Elihu Thomson apparatus, also known as a ring launcher, to learn about electromagnetism concepts and the properties of various metals.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Free science fair project idea that examines the ergonomics of your environment. Redesign your living space to be better suited to your lifestyle.

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

Ask your middle schooler to figure out what the next 100 days hold in store for him; he'll keep track of daily, weekly, and monthly commitments.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Indulge in an American classic with a twist and seize the opportunity to cook with your child, helping her build those math and social studies skills.

Here's an activity to inspire your preschooler to learn to recognize numbers and count than by using fun and funky rubber stamps to make her own flashcards!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Have a kid who loves to bead, but can't seem to keep them all in one place? Use those loose beads to craft a decorative wind chime.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Don't toss out those old tortillas! Your child can use them to create her own tortilla chips in any flavor she can imagine.

Help your child master shape recognition by creating some funky topiary trees.

This time-based word builder is the perfect way to boost your child's vocabulary. Mix and match letters to see how many words she can come up with!

Multiplying positive and negative numbers is an important skill to practice. Try this fun math card game with your sixth grader!

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.