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Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Spice up your Easter routine this year by making these stunningly sparkly eggs with your third grader. This is a great activity to do to celebrate the holiday.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Your first grader will enjoy creating his own leprechaun from a recycled toilet paper tube.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Recycle a baby jar to make this beautiful votive with your second grader! This arts and crafts project is a fun, colorful activity and makes a great gift.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your third grader make the Scoop 'N Catch--a great choice for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Don't shell out the money for a new pair of kicks! Help your second grader add some charm to her shoelaces with fabric dye.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

4th graders construct an ocean food web to learn about consumers and trophic levels, food webs, and food chains in this cool ecology science fair project.

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!

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

Excite your fourth grader by recreating ancient Viking myths. This miniature longboat will explore the principle of water molecules expanding when heated.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

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.

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

You can try this simple activity with your third grader to get him thinking about the real world math you use everyday.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Your fourth grader will love turning your house into a home this holiday season with fun crafts such as hand-casted paper holiday ornaments!

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.

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practice using mental math to solve addition and subtraction problems.