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This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

One thing the Christmas season is known for making is yummy treats! Cookies, pies, fudges, and cakes are common desserts during Christmas time. If you want to choose a healthier option this holiday season, create a Christmas tree with fruit. It will be a

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

In this experiment you will replicate the mummification process by making a hot dog mummy.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

It's always fun to recycle household items into something great. Here's a quick and easy way to turn a used juice box into a police radio for hours of play!

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Celebrate Ramadan by recreating a scene depicting the inside of a mosque. Your kid will marvel at the beautiful stained glass effect of the finished project.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

With help, your fifth grader can sew her own version of this pin cushion currently available at many craft fairs.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your first-grader or second-grader using crayons and black paint to create a beautiful wax-resist nightscape.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!