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Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

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.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

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

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.

Give mom a thoughtful gift this Mother's Day by making a photo collage of her life! This is a great way for your child to practice some basic math skills too!

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

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.

Hisss! Make a snake pet from a recycled cardboard tube! Transport your child into nature with this fun and easy craft.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.

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 learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

For kids who prefer to do homework flopped on a rug, this practical caddy can make all the difference!

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

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

Looking for interesting craft projects using pipe cleaners? This easy art project will encourage the sculptor in your child.

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.