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Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Help your teen show Mom how much he loves her through song ... with her very own CD!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Use Wallace Steven's "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" to inspire your middle school teen to sketch and free-write a poem with shifting perspective.

Your child will be cheering for 8s and 9s as she tries to create a larger number than her competitors. Whoever ends up with the largest number wins!

Here's an easy activity that will help your preschooler improve his number recognition and math skills while satisfying his afternoon hunger.

Get your middle schooler to explore symmetry and practice art and math measurements; have her draw the other half of a given face!

Practice color combinations with a learning tool that looks amazing — and delicious!

Consult mechanics, automotive specialists for advice. Build a real engine or a scale model. Test and demonstrate its mechanical properties.

Math Baseball is a fun and competitive way to review new math concepts and simple computations.

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Build an electroscope, a simple device that measures static electricity, or the freely flowing electrical charges of the atmosphere!

This experiment demonstrates the conservation and transfer of energy using a marble rolling over sandpaper.

Using cameras, host a friendly contest between family members or friends to see who can find the most examples of geometry in the real world!

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"

Instead of heading to the craft store, take a step back in time and restock your art supply with this easy recipe for homemade ink.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

Get a cool and easy science fair project idea which helps high school students in understanding concepts behind the working of a microphone.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

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!

Invite your first grader to play with his food! He will improve his fine motor skills as he creates zany edible art!

Make a beautiful - and realistic looking - sunflower using sunflower seeds and a paper plate with this fun kindergarten arts and crafts project.

Make a passport suitcase and keep track of all the places you've traveled together as a family. Here's how:

Looking for a fun earth science project on continental drifts? Check out this fun science fair project idea to explore how Pangaea may have broken up.

Create this homemade slinky snake from recycled materials. It can move and slither about like the real thing!