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If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Create a special gift for Mother's or Father's Day using felt, cardstock and buttons to create a memorable frame in the shape of a heart.

By using a tapestry needle, double-sided tape and a stitch guide, this activity helps make sewing more accessible to a beginner.

Using cardboard and duct tape, you can make a durable Father's Day frame that Dad can hang anywhere from his workbench to the office!

Invite your child to create a lovely windmill using the ancient art of origami.

In this activity, young learners will make a balance using a plastic hanger and weigh a variety of small objects using candy corn.

Learn to solve a crime scene investigation using an important forensics tool: oblique lighting.

Create a one-of-a-kind lunchbox with your second grader using recycled materials and some down home ingenuity!

Your child can be a Fauvist painter using bright colors and his imagination to create wild artwork!

Make your own menagerie of animals using empty walnut shells

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

Make beautiful print block art with your kids using recycled materials.

Add a Hannukah twist to Chutes and Ladders by using a dreidel as the dice.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Be adventurous this Cinco de Mayo and give this simple recipe using pickled nopalitos a try!

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Assemble your own stylish spider ring this Halloween using pipe cleaners and googly eyes!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

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