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Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Crafting a valentine mailbox is the perfect way to get your child ready for Valentine's Day. Now no heartfelt mail will get lost in the shuffle!

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Do this fun art project to brighten up your home with an easy-to-make stained glass window drawing!

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This beaded wind chime is fun to make and it gets kids experimenting with patterns, a key kindergarten math skill.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Make sunomono, a simple Japanese cucumber vinegar salad, and kid-friendly chopsticks in this fun kindergarten activity.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.