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This folk art painting lets kids develop watercolor and painting techniques with scenes of everyday life.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Learn more about the fascinating folk art of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs with this easy craft.

Learn Halloween fun facts and put them in this cool art project. Make a Halloween fun facts foldable with your child this October.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Increase your preschooler's observation skills with this fun and colorful science experiment!

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Here's a preschool activity to help your child get a head start on his day: make car-shaped toast slathered with his favorite topping.

Science fair project that creates fog using bottles of hot and cold water.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

This fun and easy quiz show game will help your fifth grader memorize and study vocabulary from their math, science, social studies, and language arts classes!

This footwear-focused activity introduces fractions as part of a set and it's the perfect way to generate excitement about fraction concepts.

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

Analyze competed scientific studies to determine the effectiveness of ancient remedies. Create a chart that illustrates the effectiveness of these treatments.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

Here are six fresh ideas to liven up your teen's study time, and involve the whole family at the same time!

Encourage your preschooler to create his own edible moue creation complete with an ice cream face, cookie ears, sprinkle whiskers, and jelly bean nose and eyes.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Spark your childâs interest in epic fantasy tales with this ferocious dragon craft.

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

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!

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.