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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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:

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

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

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Ever wonder where paint comes from? This recipe works well with preschoolers because of its consistency and its natural nontoxicity.

Try this arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make bread from yeast dough to teach her about the science behind bread baking.

This hanging wall pot made from homemade clay is a perfect arts and crafts activity for preschoolers.

Your child can celebrate Mexican culture by making his very own percussion instrument using simple materials such as paper plates and tissue paper.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!