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Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

Let your child add her creative touch to Cinco de Mayo celebrations by showing her how to make chili pepper napkin rings.

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

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

What's the chemistry behind dyeing Easter eggs? Will adding vinegar to dye help the eggshell absorb the color? This colorful science project has the answers!

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Let your kid be imaginative (and a little messy) as she builds a striking centerpiece in the tradition of papier-mâché artists of the past.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

Bring the Star of David symbol to life by baking and decorating festive sugar cookies for Hanukkah!

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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