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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!

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

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Add these fun chocolate Groundhog Day cupcakes to your holiday desert recipe repertoire! They're fun to make with your kids and a delicious winter snack.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

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

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!

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

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

These delicious Easter Basket Cupcakes are a simple, creative holiday treat. These cupcakes sit in waffle bowls with festive coconut grass and jellybean eggs.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

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

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.