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Act out the Three Billy Goats Gruff with this adorable paper plate mask.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

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.

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Looking for a funky new way to paint? Try paint dough, a sparkling pasty paint made from just three kitchen ingredients!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

Hone fine motor skills by having your kid create a jack-o'-lantern fiber arts project. They'll lace sheets of paper together to create a 3-D stuffed pumpkin.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

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

For a cool art project, help your child create a "Me Timeline," a unique poster that works on a key math and social studies skill: putting events in order.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Make your own play dough at home with a fruity scent using this easy activity!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

Here's an amazing recipe your kids are sure to gobble up, whether they're Jewish or not.

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!