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Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

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

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

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

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Arrange a cluster of glittering pumpkins on your dining table or use them as individual place cards to add a little sparkle to your next fall party.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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!

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

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Celebrate African heritage by making an African flag banner. This fun, culturally-inspired art project is perfect for Black History Month.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!