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Instead of giving friends and family a store bought fruitcake you can make your own this year with your favorite ingredients!

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Make a slithery snake from paper chains and learn about patterns at the same time.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Help your preschooler practice tying knots and bows by making a chain of chocolate kisses in this sweet Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity.

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

In this activity, help your kindergartener develop sequencing skills with these easy story sequence cards

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your budding artist: make a fitted paper-mache mask. Once it's complete you can use it in a play or hang it as art!

This science fair project idea focuses on two classes of sugars monosaccharides (fructose) and disaccharides (sucrose or table sugar).

This fun middle school science fair project idea helps student discover the concepts behind deep sea diving and how Cartesian divers work.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore the relation between onions and eyes and how to prevent eyes from tearing while cutting an onion.

Yarn ornaments are a beautiful and crafty way to celebrate the holidays. Make a set of yarn ornaments with your child, then hang them on your Christmas tree.

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Here's an investigative activity in which your child will discover real-world names and uses for sugar and find out how it is hidden in many different foods.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.