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Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

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

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

Make a knight using metal washers, screws, bolts and aluminum foil, creating the most resistant armor anyone has ever seen.

In this activity, young learners will make a balance using a plastic hanger and weigh a variety of small objects using candy corn.

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Make a shiny decorative Menorah using an egg carton and light bulbs.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Make beautiful print block art with your kids using recycled materials.

Add a Hannukah twist to Chutes and Ladders by using a dreidel as the dice.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Your third grader will delight in making this creepy night-flying creature using a simple pom pom!

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Be adventurous this Cinco de Mayo and give this simple recipe using pickled nopalitos a try!

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Assemble your own stylish spider ring this Halloween using pipe cleaners and googly eyes!

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

Your child can be a Fauvist painter using bright colors and his imagination to create wild artwork!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!