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Confetti wands add some colorful cheer to your New Year's Eve celebration. Wave these confetti wands at midnight and watch the colors fly.

Devise list of randomly chosen words, test how many words volunteers can remember. Compare results of adults and children. Which have better memories?

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

This school year, have your child decorate his very own clip board and watch him do his homework in style!

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

Understanding how to add and subtract integers can be a challenge at first, but once you know how to handle the heat, it's a breeze!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

Turn up the heat this February with a melted crayon heart, a crafty and colorful decoration for Valentine's Day.

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

Using items around your house, create a âstoreâ and set up expressions to represent the cost of the items.

These Halloween drink ideas will get you ready to set up a spooky beverage bar. These kid-friendly Halloween drink ideas are perfect for a spooky party.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Help your child get organized for the school year ahead and establish some important skills that will help him for years to come!

Here's a springtime arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: make batik Easter eggs using melted candle wax and homemade dye.

Show your young artist how to celebrate Mary Cassatt, an Impressionist painter, by creating a mother-child painting in her style.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Free science fair project idea that measures change in flexibility with age, using a variety of flexibility tests like Sit & Reach.

If your Father's Day festivities include meeting up with extended family, why not put all the dads to the test with a chili cook-off?

Think about the adaptive utility of an important aspect of our physiology.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

This three-part debate book is designed to hold two conflicting points of view on an issue that concerns you, along with possible solutions.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

Kids learn how to manipulate additive and subtractive colors to send secret messages with red colored filters in this cool science fair project idea.