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Students need to have fun with learning to stay motivated. To keep students happy while making the most of precious instruction time, let students play games that are quick to set up, like toothpick puzzles. An arts and crafts activity that requires minimal set up but keeps students motivated for a long time is making their own paper plate clock.

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Play Number Memory Match Up!

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your kindergartener match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening her memory skills!

Volcano Project

Your child will be hooked on chemistry after she builds a model volcano by combining an acid and an alkaline substance.

Celery and Food Coloring Experiment

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

How to Make a Bouncy Ball

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Make a Straw Skeleton

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Sink or Float: A Science Experiment

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

How to Make a Wind Vane

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Fraction Simplification

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

Keep a Candle Burning Underwater!

Help your fifth grader execute this experiment involving a lit candle (submerged in water!) to show him the wonders of heat energy transference.

Candle Burning Experiment

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Make Four Season Trees!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Bread Mold Experiment

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

Brush Up: A Toothpaste Experiment

This science experiment uses a hard-boiled egg as a pretend tooth and shows reluctant brushers the importance of tooth care!

Jumping Bean Phonics

This cute game that lets your child practice making words, while acting like a Mexican jumping bean! Great for emerging readers.

Separate Salt and Pepper With Static Electricity

What's the quickest way to separate salt and pepper? Let static electricity do the work! Your child will be fascinated by this simple experiment.

Homemade Lava Lamp

A homemade lava lamp gives any room a retro flair. Find out how to make a homemade lava lamp, and learn some science too, with this educational activity.

Layering Liquids: Explore Density Science

Teach your child some scientific basics as you explore the densities of various liquids in this fun experiment.

Create an Ocean in a Bottle

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

States of Matter in a Baggie

Try this experiment to give your curious kid a more "solid" understanding of how temperature affects the states of matter.

Foam It! Cause a Chemical Reaction

This experiment uses a yeast solution, liquid detergent, and hydrogen peroxide to produce an exciting reaction like no other!

Make Paper Plate Tambourines

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Oobleck Science: Solid or Liquid?

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

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