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Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

In this tons-of-fun reading activity, your child plans a storytime, makes a flyer, creates a coloring sheet, and hosts their own storytime.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Make some fairy tale felt board stories with your child the next time you're looking for a fun activity for a lazy afternoon.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

In this activity, your child will learn how slowing down and using mindfulness can help us be more aware of others' needs. They will also draw a picture of a time when they made a healthy and helpful choice.

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.