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This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

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

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

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.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

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!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

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

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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 project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

Make a "hands-on" barbecue apron for Dad this Father's Day!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

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

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

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.