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Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

This creamy peanut butter fudge is a great first recipe to get your first or second grader involved with because it doesn't involve any time in the oven!

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

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

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

This science fair project idea discovers whether there are some objects that do not fall at a constant rate.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

Find out whether soil amendments can improve soil conditions and help you grow a bigger beanstalk in this ecology experiment!

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Ready for a game that's mostly about strategy with a little luck thrown in for good measure? Make math fact practice exciting and start rolling the dice!