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Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Complete with the drippy, glittery shapes that make icicles so popular, this paper project can be hung everywhere from door frames to tabletops.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

What is it about a Slinky that causes it to walk down the steps? This simple experiment is a perfect illustration of both gravity and momentum.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Being able to guess the likelihood of an event is a useful skill. Discuss probability with your kid as you play this fun math card game!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Compare fractions in this two-player math game. The objective of the games is to work together to determine who has created the largest fraction.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This math game helps fourth graders improve their understanding of positive and negative integers in a fun way.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Teach your fourth grader foreshortening, a type of visual perspective in art with this fun and easy activity!

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while she completes this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

An hour glass, also known as a sand clock, keeps time. In this activity, your child will make her own sand clock and measure the time it keeps.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.