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

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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

2nd graders with some weaving experience can turn a gallon milk jug and plastic grocery bags into a functional basket.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Does your child love Roly, the orange cat from our Brainzy games? Create the perfect dress-up costume and bring your child’s dreams to life!

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Light up the sky with this lotus lantern, a perfect way to explore Buddha Day.

Introduce your child to the concept of the melting pot by decorating a patriotic 4th of July planter.

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Here's a great homemade card idea that supports fine motor skills and creativity in addition to introducing your child to the art of quilling.

Make a unique painting while learning about sea life.

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Your child can pretend she is a pro by creating a crackle painting that looks and feels like a classic work of art!

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!