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Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same time.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Money is a difficult concept to grasp. Help your kid get the hang of it with this pocket change triple Venn diagram activity.

Check out this cool science fair project on identifying rocks and minerals for kids.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Protozoa and ciliate and amoeba, oh my! The objective of this science fair project is for students to use a microscope and identify microscopic life.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.