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

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

This game will help your child write with more attention to detail.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!