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Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Here are three activities you can do at home and around town to bring algebra into your daily lives.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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.

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.

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

This science fair project idea investigates the difference in reaction times between boys and girls.

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Invigorate your fourth grader's mind by helping him turn his room into a woven masterpiece using various lengths of material.

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

What do you get when you cross a pool, water balloons and hula hoops? Pool Basketball, an exciting summer game perfect for kids of all ages.

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

Here's a guide to help you design a challenging pool obstacle course for your elementary school children with ordinary pool toys and household objects.

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

Press pause on your speedy reader's latest adventure with an activity perfect for book lovers.

Teach your child golf without the clubs! Introduce her to Pebble Golf, a fun beach game and a great way to develop her depth perception.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

This fun Christmas craft recycles paper bags to create personalized stockings by your kids to enjoy during the holidays.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

Does your middle school teenager have good reflexes? Gauge his reaction time in this science and math activity that requires only a yardstick and a friend.

Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

Here's a game your child is sure to love playing with her friends: French Cricket. Just grab a baseball bat and a tennis ball, and you're set.

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

Heart-shaped crackers are a tasty and unexpected snack perfect for your young valentine. Combine the fun of crafting with food with these heart-shaped crackers.

Learn to make homemade ketchup with your child and experiment with spices and flavors!

Make physical activity fun with this 4th-5th grade fitness game that's a twist on classic Tic-Tac-Toe.