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Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

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

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

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 kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's a fun way to bring estimation to the breakfast table.

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.