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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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

What do a pool, a raft and a golf club have in common? They are all integral ingredients in the fun game of Aqua Golf, a great activity for kids of all ages.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Are you looking for an easy-to-play, fun game? Try Cat and Mouse. All you need is a large bed sheet or tablecloth, a "cat" and a "mouse", and you're all set.

This year for Valentine's Day, you and your child can bake up a batch of classic red velvet cupcakes and learn more about the history of this vintage treat.

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Take play-dough to the next level with this homemade recipe, adding surprising ingredients perfect for summer!

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

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.