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Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your first grader get started making this watering can that's filled with homemade flowers. It will brighten up any window sill ... and it's eco-friendly!

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

How does dishwashing liquid work? Kids discover the chemical mechanism behind cleansing power in this easy science fair project idea.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Looking for something to do with all those plastic 2-liter bottles that seem to accumulate endlessly? Turn them into a unique mini birdbath.

If you love the idea of handing out holiday tins of homemade cookies but you're not a baker, chocolate-covered apples are the perfect solution.

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

If you are looking for a special way to celebrate dad on his day, help your little one to design a creative letter photo collage.

Make a yarmulke for your teddy bear and celebrate The Festival of Lights with this fun craft project.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Make Valentine's Day breakfast special with this 'hearty' egg and toast recipe. This Valentine's Day breakfast gets a special twist with a heart-shaped egg.

A scarecrow Halloween craft featuring recycled materials.