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Instead of giving friends and family a store bought fruitcake you can make your own this year with your favorite ingredients!

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

Nothing chases the blues away like a trip to the boardwalk. Bring the fun home with this do-it-yourself version that sneaks in some math practice.

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

Children will learn about food waste and conservation, create a poster that lets others know about the importance of food conservation, and make a plan to waste less food and consume with mindfulness.

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

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

These spring spring rolls are a tasty treat for lunch, dinner, or just a snack.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

In this activity, your child will practice mindfulness, choose one thing to do in which they can slow down, and reflect on this experience. You can even try slowing down together!