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Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Frisbee golf is a game that incorporates the rules of golf with the fun of frisbee. Here's how to get started with your child:

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

In this activity, your child will get a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using classic domino pieces.

Want to play publisher for a day? Become a book jacket illustrator for this creative and fun project.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

The objective of this science fair project is to study the photosynthesis process and demonstrate the important role that leaves play in the process.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

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.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

How do the phases of the Moon and gravity cause spring tides and neap tides? Does the Sun play a role in the tides? Figure it out in this fun science project!

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Try a new approach to working with variables and equations by playing this tic-tac-toe game with your math student.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

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.

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

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.