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Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

Work on measurement by sliding cards along a table with your second grader in this fun game. Use centimeters or inches, add up your totals, and see who's won!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

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.

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

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Use this great no-bake recipe to save energy and keep cool.

Make this delectable custard, meringue, and graham cracker pie will give your fifth grader practice with measurement and get him interested in the kitchen.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

This fun science project helps to investigate how much water can a plant take up and release in a certain period of time through the process of transpiration.