Activities : Page 86

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Dig up some dinos while promoting curiosity and sensory skills in this hands-on activity that will have your child searching for prehistoric treasure!

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

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

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your preschooler or pre-kindergartener bringing home the beach with this underwater beach scene.

Show your child how to paint in true Georgia O'Keeffe style. He'll enjoy painting art inspired by a master, and boost his math skills, too.

Your child can make her own at home with a little paint and her own foot. Make a whole colony!

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.

Help your child make her very own candy bars with this easy recipe.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

If your young child is a kinesthetic learner, this equation board is perfect for teaching him addition and subtraction facts.

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

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

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During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

The purpose of this science fair project is to investigate whether cooking seeds before planting will speed up germination and growth.

With this activity, you child will get an opportunity to apply skills they're learning in second grade math, and maybe learn something new about Dad.

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.

This baking activity lets kids play with frosting, while experimenting with colors, and how they mix.

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Science fair project that determines whether moths are attracted to one color of light more than others.

It's easy to be a master Italian chef with this target practice game played with a pizza board constructed out of felt and Velcro bean bag "toppings."

This St. Patrick's Day show your child to the fun of resist painting. It's as simple as getting out a crayon and some watercolor paints!

Sure, you already know that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, but did you know that oxygen levels differ in different types of water?

Kids learn how to play Jan-Ken-Pon, Japanese rock-paper-scissors, in this fun preschool activity.