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This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

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

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

In this pretend play activity, your child will get to design a custom superhero utility belt and invent a new superhero to go with it!

Create a special Father’s Day surprise by planning and mapping a hike around the neighborhood!

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 nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

Your child will jump at the chance to get messy (under adult supervision, of course) with this project and create some unique home decor that really shines!

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this second grade shamrock tote bag craft.

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.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

This colorful garland can be strung across a fireplace and remind you of your blessings well into the new year.

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.

Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely. Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm.

Turn your child's favorite fruits and vegetables into an edible necklace!

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Kids construct a single fixed pulley system to learn how pulleys can make work easier in this cool physics and engineering science fair project idea.

Find out whether soil amendments can improve soil conditions and help you grow a bigger beanstalk in this ecology experiment!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Celebrate the sweeter side of the holidays with this charming mouse ornament!

Celebrate our founding fathers and the parchment they wrote on with this DIY scroll project.

Make cleaning fun with a duster made from a decorated tube sock.

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

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.