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Everyone needs to stay warm during the cold winter months, including your cup of cocoa! This mug cozy will do the trick.

This pair of ice skates won't get you very far on ice, but they'll still dazzle during the coldest season of the year.

This reindeer hat is cute and festive for your child during the holiday season. Make a reindeer hat this Christmas with your child.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

One thing the Christmas season is known for making is yummy treats! Cookies, pies, fudges, and cakes are common desserts during Christmas time. If you want to choose a healthier option this holiday season, create a Christmas tree with fruit. It will be a

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Did you know cooking supports your child in learning complex math skills? Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills by whipping up some healthy sweet potatoes for a dinner side dish!

Try this winter-themed arts and crafts activity for fifth graders: make colorful woolly pompoms! All you need is yarn and stiff cardboard to get started.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Welcome the holiday season by making your own paper lantern. Learn about traditional light festivals from the United States with this fun, easy activity.

Baking holiday gingerbread men has ever been more educational! Your kindergartener will work on fine motor skills, logic, and counting in this cookie activity.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Ignite your kindergartener's creativity by showing her how to recreate her favorite Christmas symbol - the Christmas tree - out of tissue paper!

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Make lunch or afternoon snack more memorable your preschooler or pre-kindergartener with these sweet snowflakes snacks.

Have your child make a holiday scarf with inexpensive materials, no sewing required!

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Create a dazzling window display with cut stars with this fun first grade holiday activity.

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Help your child master shape recognition by creating some funky topiary trees.