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Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

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

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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.

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.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

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.

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.

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

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

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

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

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

Here's a delightful activity that uses your child's name to help him improve his writing skills.

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!