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

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

Review fractions with your budding mathematician when you play this fun, educational math board game.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

Pay tribute to the color green this St. Patrick's Day by creating a tactile sensory collage filled with green things in this kindergarten art activity.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!