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Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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.

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

When your child is crossing streets in the dark, visibility is key. Once he's picked out a costume, make fun and festive neon accents to add to his outfit.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

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

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

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.

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.

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

In this activity, your child will learn the benefits of positive thinking. They will write positive statements about themselves and create a gratitude board.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Button art gets your child to make a pretty silhouette out of buttons. Make button art on Valentine's Day and any craft-filled day you'd like.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help your first grader make these patriotic hanging streamer decorations this 4th of July!

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Whether you love the sweet candy kernels or not, the vibrant colors of candy corn make them perfect for your child and his artistic talents.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.