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Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

If your kid is fascinated by dinosaurs, show him how to make his very own dinosaur egg. When he's not looking, hide a surprise inside!

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Try this chemistry experiment with your curious kid and get some "shocking" results!

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.

Celebrate Dad with this decorative stepping stone for your garden!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Help you child burn his very own CD with all of his favorite color songs to create a compilation album that is truly one of a kind.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Here's a delightful activity that uses your child's name to help him improve his writing skills.

Express the love that you share with your child this Valentine's Day by creating unique "me and you" portraits together!

This chocolate gelt is the perfect Hanukkah treat. Chocolate gelt is used as a gift for children or in the classic Hanukkah game of Dreidel.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Most often, a collage is 2-dimensional, but instead of using paper as a base, this project uses an inexpensive pumpkin from the craft store.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

Kids build a desert food chain, desert food web, and desert food pyramid in this cool science fair project to learn about trophic levels and consumers.

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

This science fair project idea investigates how a bottom keel helps keep a boat from rocking back and forth.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

This activity will have your child cutting and gluing to his heart's content. What's more, he'll create a pretty, mixed media plate for Seder while he's at it!

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?