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This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

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.

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

This engaging outdoor game is a blind obstacle course to help your Kindergarten aged child learn to follow directions.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Looking for an easy and creative craft? Beads come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors and your kids will have fun creating unique key chains.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

In this activity, your child will explore techniques that support patience and learn to practice mindfulness when waiting.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Indulge in an American classic with a twist and seize the opportunity to cook with your child, helping her build those math and social studies skills.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

Let your child add her creative touch to Cinco de Mayo celebrations by showing her how to make chili pepper napkin rings.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Future engineers, unite! Discover how to keep a sandcastleâs bridge from falling into the moat.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.