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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

2nd graders with some weaving experience can turn a gallon milk jug and plastic grocery bags into a functional basket.

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

A twist on the gingerbread house, this train is made with graham crackers, icing, and candy decorations. A great 2nd-3rd grade holiday arts and crafts activity.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

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

Build your child's math skills with this 2nd-3rd grade activity. Similar to a carnival toss, this egg carton toss game is sure to provide hours of fun.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Light up the sky with this lotus lantern, a perfect way to explore Buddha Day.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Develop your child's hand-eye coordination in a fun and engaging way by challenging her to a game of Drop Catch.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

In this experiment you explore how tectonic plates move to create land and expand bodies of water.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.