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With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Teach your child about the art of ancient Australia by creating your own handprint art just like Aboriginal artists did thousands of years ago.

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

Great for bath time, or anytime your child is feeling creative, these bright bathtub paints are a fun and low-mess way to spice up art time.

If your child is particularly handy or artistic, she'll love putting her talents toward making a custom key holder. It's the perfect gift for any occasion.

Replace the butterfat and sugar of ice cream with the sublime sweetness of a frozen chocolate-covered banana.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

Work with your child's sense of fun by making this interesting snack, where playing with healthy food gets your child eating it

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.

In this fun math activity, second graders will learn to estimate items in a jar! 

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

This paper alternative to tie-dye is faster, easier, and (slightly) less messy, only requiring paper, white crayons, and a little imagination.

Celebrate Veterans Day or Memorial Day by creating some patriotic paper star charms to honor those who have served in the military.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.