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This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community.

This cause and effect activity brings the fun of card games and comprehension practice together in an innovative way!

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

Determine the growth rates of different types of human hair. Ask volunteers to not cut their hair until the end of experiment. Measure hair length.

Science fair project that tests the effects of temperature change on the reactivity of the catalase enzyme.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

This science fair project idea examines reptile behavior and to determine whether reptiles are more active during warmer temperatures.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Make a Canadian-Themed dinner with your child to celebrate the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics!

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

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!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

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.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

You and your fourth grader can pay homage to the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada, by baking up a batch of maple leaf pancakes!

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Using lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, help your child implement kindness and compassion into their interactions with others.

With this activity, you'll be practicing adding and subtracting fractions, but the activity can be modified to refresh multiplication, division, and more.

In this activity, create a poem that emerges from the collaboration of parent and teen in the activity of observing, discussing, reading, and writing.

Get into the Christmas spirit with this fun and messy finger painting activity. This fun activity will light up the day like holiday lights!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!