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Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.

Help your child make her very own clock with a recycled, thrift store find to give as a gift or keep for yourself!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Celebrate our founding fathers and the parchment they wrote on with this DIY scroll project.

Looking for something to do with all those plastic 2-liter bottles that seem to accumulate endlessly? Turn them into a unique mini birdbath.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Take a look at this oogly-googly eye Halloween craft! Have your child tweak the design to learn about balance and counterbalance with this crazy-eyed creature.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

Make quick sweet and salty walnuts, a delicious addition to fall salads and fruit and nut plates, or a simple afternoon snack.

Take a bite out of these sticky-sweet banana ghosts to create a Halloween memory your kid's taste buds will never forget.

Sweet corn muffins are a delicious and unexpected Valentine's Day treat. Make a batch of sweet corn muffins with a hidden surprise this Valentine's Day.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Help your child to invent her own chore-helper to help her put that growing imagination to good use!

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

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.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Celebrate the season with a fall centerpiece art project your child can display for the whole family!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.