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In this fun art exercise, kids practice seeing multiple shapes and colors inside a water-filled glass and recreate them as a still life using colored paper.

Make your own ribbon to give gifts that special touch. Enlist your preschooler or kindergartener to help create an extra special holiday ribbon this winter.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Here, kids can make edible collages out of cookies and candy. Colorful, creative, and delicious, they make great gifts for sweet-toothed family and friends.

Kids learn about pointillism as they make their own self-portrait in the style of famed American artist Chuck Close.

Make some beautiful and unique candles to light your home.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Not only will you and your kindergartener create a beautiful photo keepsake, you'll also have the chance to spend time together and relive special memories.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Here's an entertaining ball game filled with spins, jumps, and claps to keep your child having fun while you get a moment to yourself.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Salmon is a great source of protein and essential omega 3's, which makes this dish just what the doctor ordered for your growing child.

Sweet potatoes lend a creamy texture and peppery seasoning gives a spicy kick in this fall hash recipe.

Make a gingerbread house with your kid with this tutorial. Learn how to make a gingerbread house using a milk carton, graham crackers, and frosting.

Want to go paperless this holiday season? Here's a delicious way to get your third grader started (and practice some writing in the process!)

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Explore your kitchen and create a delicious holiday fudge that your child can share with friends and family!

Explore form, space, and texture with your child this Valentine's Day by making a charming papier-mâché heart sculpture!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

New Year's Eve hats let you wear your celebratory spirit on your head. Make New Year's Eve hats with year child to ring in the New Year in style.

This Hawaiian costume is fun for luaus, Halloween, or playtime. Make a Hawaiian costume, complete with tissue-paper lei and crepe-paper grass skirt.

Introduce your fifth grader to the Kinara, part of the Kwanzaa tradition, by playing this fast-paced, two player game!

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Why wait for the Easter bunny to arrive when your child can become a bunny herself? Creating a bunny mask is the perfect way to celebrate Easter.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.