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This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Your kindergartener will be delighted to refine his motor and conceptual skills as he creates his own Maccabee shield in honor of the Maccabee revolt.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Not sure what to do with all of those leftover boxes from holiday gifts? Tap into your crafty side by creating an adorable snow person with your child. This activity is sure to bring smiles to those who pass your yard or come into your home all season lon

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This engaging outdoor game is a blind obstacle course to help your Kindergarten aged child learn to follow directions.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

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

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

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

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

If your kid is fascinated by dinosaurs, show him how to make his very own dinosaur egg. When he's not looking, hide a surprise inside!

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Celebrate Dad with this decorative stepping stone for your garden!

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.