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If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Here are three healthy burger recipes your second grader can help you whip up for a summer barbecue!

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.

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

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.

Understanding how a map works is tricky for kids, so why not make it into a fun activity for the whole family?

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.

Take a page from Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt and compose a shining collage.

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!

Use painted pasta to create your very own ancient Egyptian necklace.

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!

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

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.

Getting your treasures from place to place is tough. Help your child with this task by making a denim pouch from recycled blue jeans!

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.