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Your third grader will delight in learning about sound waves as he observes the different sounds created by tapping on glasses with varying amounts of water.

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

Forget toy stores! Show your first or second grader how to make a vehicle out of fruit from a neighbor's tree or local farmers' market.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Have a Twelfth Night celebration with this holiday tutorial and craft. Learn how to throw a Twelfth Night celebration in your house this winter.

Explore form, space, and texture with your child this Valentine's Day by making a charming papier-mâché heart sculpture!

Even the birds need to get out of the rain during the winter months. Help your child help nature and fill a lazy afternoon with this easy, cute craft.

In this activity you'll use coffee...to paint! It's a wonderful way to provide your child with a hands-on experience with natural dyes.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this second grade shamrock tote bag craft.

Mix eggs, milk, and flour just so, and you can create spectacular, gourmet popovers this Easter!

Help your child make a cubist self-portrait while he boosts his math and spatial skills with this fun lesson in art history!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Oragami Christmas ornaments make a beautiful addition to your family's tree. Make origami Christmas ornaments out of old wrapping paper this holiday season.

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Use adorable animal photos from books or magazines to make these simple valentines that can be given to classmates or friends.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

This hands-on activity will introduce your third grader to the concepts of positive and negative space as she makes a shamrock!

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.