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Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Sweet corn muffins are a delicious and unexpected Valentine's Day treat. Make a batch of sweet corn muffins with a hidden surprise this Valentine's Day.

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!

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

This science fair project idea investigates which objects float and sink in honey, water, and oil.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

This hunting game is just as fun outdoors as it is inside. And while they'll never suspect they're learning, it helps kids develop listening skills, too!

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

A valentine garland makes any home look more lovely on Valentine's Day. Craft a simple valentine garland with your child to add some heart to your day.

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Have the kids make Mom a wooden "Love Box" for Mother's Day (or any other day!) to show her how much she means to everyone.

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

Encourage your child to practice skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Your kindergartener will love this counting activity on a rainy day. Turn any indoor space into a colorful hopscotch board and using simple recycled materials.

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.