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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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

Say goodbye to lost bookmarks with the flower bookmark that knows how to hold on tight!

Crazy quilting is a fun and easy way for kids to exercise some creativity and connect with the past.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

These homemade juggling balls are super simple to make and are a blast to play with. Not to mention, they're great practicing hand-eye coordination.

Be active while learning about American history with this twist on the classic running game "Capture the Flag."

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

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.

Dream big with a homemade dream journal, a great writing exercise for elementary-age kids.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

This refreshing salad is tasty and chock full of fresh veggies! Your child will hone her slicing skills as she makes this delicious dish.

This project examines what types of objects burn and which burn faster and cleaner.