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This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Turn up the heat this February with a melted crayon heart, a crafty and colorful decoration for Valentine's Day.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Challenge your third grader and a few friends to teamwork and laughs with these boisterous indoor Christmas games.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

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

There's no better way to show mom you love her than with the tried and true breakfast in bed routine. Make whole wheat waffles along with a vase just for mom.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

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

Learn how to tell time by the sun with this cool science fair project idea that tracks how the accuracy of a sundial changes over time.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

Learn how to make a food pyramid with animals in a a coniferous forest ecosystem around your home.