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

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.

This science fair project idea investigates how magnetism can defy the force of gravity.

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

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

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

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

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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.

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.

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

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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.

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

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

Will storing cucumbers and tomatoes in the fridge destroy their unique flavors? Find out in this science fair project idea!

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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.