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Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Children build a "Loving Kindness Garden" to represent what they have learned about love, mindfulness, and caring for others in community.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

Determine if certain colors of light are more effective for photosynthesis. Plant seeds in cardboard boxes with different light, record visible growth.

What's the difference between a microwave and an oven? Use mashed potatoes to explore which kitchen appliance does a better job at keeping food warm.

Look for a correlation between temperature and the intensity of cricket chirping. Measure ambient temperature and sound intensity in decibels.

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

Kids learn about examples of mechanical weathering and conduct an experiment with seeds and plaster in this cool geology science fair project idea.

Kids will create their own version of Richard Feynman's rubber band heat engine to learn about thermodynamics with this cool science fair project idea.

A science scavenger hunt can be a fun way to learn about science. Test your child's knowledge of scientific terms with this science scavenger hunt.

Kids learn how to make a simple electric motor in this great engineering science fair project that teaches them how current generates its own magnetic field.

Easy and cool middle school science fair project on ripening process of fruits and measures you can take to prevent fruits from rotting and delay ripening.

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Ask your fourth grader to jazz up the family kitchen by creating this adorable clothespin giraffe to sit on the counter and hold recipe cards.

This engaging outdoor game is a blind obstacle course to help your Kindergarten aged child learn to follow directions.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

Explore the color orange with your preschooler by creating an edible picture using orange foods.