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Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Are you looking for an easy-to-play, fun game? Try Cat and Mouse. All you need is a large bed sheet or tablecloth, a "cat" and a "mouse", and you're all set.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.

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!

Learn how to make a hygrometer to measure relative humidity in this project. Make a sling psychrometer hygrometer with gauze, thermometers, and a bottle.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

Looking for a way to stay cool in the pool? Check out Elbow Tag, a simple and easy twist on the classic game tag.

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

Picnic getting boring? Here's a fun game that gets the kids moving around, and doing a little addition while they're at it.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Vincent van Gogh painted golden hued pictures of the harvest using bold lines and vibrant color. Your child can explore this style of art using oil pastels.

Preserve some precious memories this Mother's Day! Make a shoe planter out of that old pair of your child's favorite shoes.

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

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

Your first grader will love feeding his favorite winged creatures with these tasty Christmas "cookies" for birds!

Using hard boiled eggs, leaves and tempera paint, your child can create a delicate garden print decoration on Easter eggs.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!