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It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your child put together his own "Back to School" scrapbook.

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

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.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Who wants to take a boring paper bag to school -- just to throw away as soon as the bell rings -- when you can create a reusable lunch bag out of fleece?

Here is a fun middle school science project on factors affecting solubility. Learn how dissolved solids can "crash out" to form crystals when conditions change.

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

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

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Next time your child says he's bored, suggest a game of Toe Fencing! It's a silly and physical game that can be played anywhere, any time.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.