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Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

Most timeline activities are all about history. Make timelines more relevant and personal for your child by focusing on the hours and minutes of his day.

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!

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

In this matching activity, your kid will match the clock faces representing analog time with the numeric readings representing digital time.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!