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Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

Want to help your child learn to fit homework time into a real-life schedule? Here's a tool that can help the whole family.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

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.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.