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Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

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

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

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

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Your third grader will delight in making this creepy night-flying creature using a simple pom pom!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Bake these delicious Crisco Cookies with your child this holiday season to give as gifts to friends and family.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.