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A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

Money is a difficult concept to grasp. Help your kid get the hang of it with this pocket change triple Venn diagram activity.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will listen to their favorite song and explore how it makes them feel. Then, together you will craft your own cardboard radio!

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

For some good "green" fun, pull out your blender. A spinach smoothie?! You better believe it! And kids will not only slurp it up, they"ll beg for seconds.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Encourage your third-grader to create a reverse glass painting. This will help him learn art concepts and improve his critical thinking skills.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.