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This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

Make a knight using metal washers, screws, bolts and aluminum foil, creating the most resistant armor anyone has ever seen.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Turn your child's favorite fruits and vegetables into an edible necklace!

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Hisss! Make a snake pet from a recycled cardboard tube! Transport your child into nature with this fun and easy craft.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Household items and a bit of imagination will create a CSI kit for your child to have investigative adventures with. Explore the world of forensic science!

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.