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Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Determine how effective animal camouflage is by simulating it in an indoor and outdoor setting.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's a fun way to bring estimation to the breakfast table.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Analyze competed scientific studies to determine the effectiveness of ancient remedies. Create a chart that illustrates the effectiveness of these treatments.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!