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Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

Homemade Halloween treats make great party foods for an All Hallow's Eve get together. These four homemade Halloween treats are scary-good.

Use familiar household items and decorations to turn estimation into a fun game!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

Make this delicious warm apple bread for Hanukkah.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!