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Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same time.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

Want to make sure you raise a money-savvy kid? Start him out right with this activity that hides valuable math skills within a fun grocery store game.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Topped with roasted pumpkin, prosciutto, herbs, and feta, these pita pizzas are a healthy, seasonal alternative to your classic pie.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

How does frost form? How fast does it form? Do this simple science project using a plastic glass, rock salt and some water to learn about deposition.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

These delicious Easter Basket Cupcakes are a simple, creative holiday treat. These cupcakes sit in waffle bowls with festive coconut grass and jellybean eggs.

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

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

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

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

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!

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!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

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

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

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.