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Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Use common kitchen tools to create an entirely uncommon work of art!

This science fair project idea identifies trees using a dichotomous key.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Make unique jewelry and accessories using photos and shrinkable plastic sheets! It's like Shrinky Dinks, but better.

This project examines the phenomenon of using a mirror to trick a person's brain into experiencing sensations in body parts not actually affected.

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

This cool air pressure demonstration has kids break a ruler using only a newspaper and atmospheric pressure.

Looking for a project on machines? Get a fun elementary school science fair project idea to design a compound machine using your knowledge of simple machines.

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!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

In the mood for a little lighthearted magic? Make your own chi chi sticks, inspired by the divination tools of ancient Chinese fortune tellers.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Can you increase the light and plant growth in your garden using mirrors? In this experiment, measure light reflection and find out!

The goal of this science fair project is to identify the galactic center of the milky way using globular clusters, as found through Google Earth.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

This experiment investigates whether smell can be used to enhance test subjects' memories.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.

Create fun and imaginative works of art by using trucks to paint on paper in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

Bake some cookies with an oven that collects sunlight and traps the shorter wavelengths (heat!).

Learn how to relight a candle by lighting the vaporized wax in the smoke, and test how various kind of wax and candle brands relight differently.