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Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Whether it's a bag lunch, goody bag, or used to decorate a table, this cute little fox bag is sure to make your kid smile.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

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!

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

This science fair project idea investigates if fats add to the flavor of food.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.