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Encourage your child to practice skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This Mother's Day, help your child practice math measurement skills with this "mom" recipe card.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Make these delicious and festive smoothies with your kids this Fourth of July to celebrate the holiday with a healthy twist.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

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

Make this easy homemade tie for a great Father's Day gift this year.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" game.

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

Spice up your everyday vase with this fun craft adding colorful layers of beans to a regular vase. The beans add beauty and function, helping prop up flowers.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!