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Here's a fun family activity: have your child make a cameo appearance by creating and drawing on their own silhouettes!

Children will discuss what it means to have healthy friendships and create a unique friendship painting that illustrates the qualities of good friends.

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Discover flight initiation distance as you play around in the park with this fun bird watching project!

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

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

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

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

In this activity, learners will discover how to make a basic water filtration system using common materials found around the house or outside.

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

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

Instead of piling on jackets and mittens, settle down for an afternoon of paper magic with this three-dimensional snowflake craft.

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

Coil your daughter's two favorite colors into a wearable pendant with just a few scraps of felt!

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

In this lesson, your child will watch a video on restorative justice, and together you will come up with ways your family can use restorative justice at home.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

What is topography? Kids find out by learning to make and read a topographic map in this awesome science fair project idea.

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Your child will create their very own filigree drawing; twirling, or coiling small strips of lightweight paper around toothpicks and gently gluing them down.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

In this experiment you observe and determine how well your cat uses his whiskers to navigate through a maze.

Inspired by colorful African drums and crafted from recyclable materials, these pencil holders will make a bold and charming addition to any desk set.

If you love the look of yarn but aren't in the mood for complicated knitting or crocheting, have your child create simple and beautiful yarn letters.