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A car game for road trips with children.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Make a campfire crown, complete with roasted marshmallows!

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Turn a boring lunch bag into a personalized suburban house. Your child will look forward to his lunch when he has the coolest bag house on the block!

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

Bubble wrap is fun to pop, but it's also fun to paint with! Paint a pretty seascape using bubble wrap as your brush.

This nature craft is a great way for your child to learn about the fall season and make a festive decoration to display in your home.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

This fun, summery arts and crafts activity is a great project to do with your child. She'll express her creativity while she revamps some old flip flops.