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Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

This Valentine's Day craft uses paper hearts of different sizes to create a cuddly puppy your child will love seeing on the wall!

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

Make a batch of chocolate clay to teach kids the art of molding and sculpting. Working with their hands has never been this much fun.

Make healthy eating a manageable (and yummy) task for your kindergartener by encouraging her to help you make a healthy apple sauce snack!

Reuse beloved old Christmas cards by filling them with candies and toys, and turn them into something to enjoy for years.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Help your child use matzoh to create edible decorations that feature the smiling faces of family and friends.

The objectives of this classic game are to toss a marker onto each square, to hop onto the single squares, and to skip the square where the marker landed.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

Feed your preschoolerâs love for all things transportation-related with this tasty and educational snack.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

This collage is a great way for children to see different methods of creating the same idea.

Guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's a fun way to bring estimation to the breakfast table.

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity: re-purpose an old t-shirt into a simple apron to use for your child's cooking and art projects.