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Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

This is a fantastic and easy science experiment where kids will learn about elasticity by testing how high bouncy balls of different materials can bounce.

In this project, all you need is a protractor to learn how to use the altitude of Polaris to find latitude on Earth. Polaris is also known as the North Star.

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

In this fun science fair project idea, kids will experiment with various methods in order to discover the fastest way to cool a soda.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

These quick and easy pumpkin quesadillas are as delicious as they are nutritious. Celebrate Fall and the wonder squash that is the pumpkin!

A Christmas tree advent calendar will help your child count down the days until the holiday. This craft is a great way to keep your child busy this winter.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Edible holiday gifts are perfect for the foodie in your life. Learn how to make edible holiday gifts with this activity and tutorial.

Kids will learn how to make a steam powered rocket boat, also called a putt putt boat or a pop pop boat, in this great science fair project for 4th graders.

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Create your very own Sleep Book filled with a menagerie of made-up nonsense creatures and discover how different animals catch some zzz's.