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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!

This year, celebrate Father's Day with three hilarious outdoor family games.

These festive red and blue drink umbrellas are the perfect DIY party idea. While you're making them you can even sneak in a little compass practice.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Help your third grader create a Venn diagram fantasy creature by combining two different creatures to create a fantasy creature based on their similarities.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

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.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

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.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In this free science fair project, build a star clock and learn how to tell time on a clear night by observing the big dipper!