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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.

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

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

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.

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 fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Topped with roasted pumpkin, prosciutto, herbs, and feta, these pita pizzas are a healthy, seasonal alternative to your classic pie.

Hiding protein-rich quinoa and a variety of fresh vegetables, these meatballs are the perfect answer to kid food woes.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.