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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

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.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Get fired up for the new school year with a "Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

Capture your beach memories—not with a photograph, but with a beach mosaic made from that classic beach souvenir, the shell.

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practice self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

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

Test whether plants can grow without sunlight and water.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension 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.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.