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 		How to Make Reading Fun for Kids
In an age dominated by digital entertainment, parents can develop the habit of reading for enjoyment in their child by using these creative ideas.
Climate Change and Conservation for Kids
Interactive games and activities can help kids understand climate change, conservation, and emergency preparedness.
Choosing the Right Books for Your Child
Choosing books wisely for a child is important because by making the right choices parents can spark their child's life-long interest in books.
New Ways to Transform a Reluctant Reader
Books are vital to a child's education, and in developing social and life skills. Like any other skill, reading must be introduced, nurtured, and developed.
Kids Math Activities
Early math skills are important to the young learner. This article contains tips and activities to promote math learning with children.
How to Use Abacus to Teach Math to Children
Abacus is a frame with beads on wires. Children can learn mathematical concepts by using the counting frame to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Start a Parent & Child Book Club
Share the love of reading and build inter-generational relationships by starting a Parent and Child Book Discussion Group in your community.
Exploring an Art Museum With the Kids
Make a day at the museum fun and exciting by planning activities that allow children to explore. Read on to find tips that teach!
Educational Math Games
Basic children's math skills are essential to a child's future success. Playing kids fun math games will effectively strengthen all the elementary school math basics.
Fall File Folder Games for Preschool
Create fun file folder activities for preschool aged kids that incorporate the fall season with educational elements.
Spelling Bees for Children
Participation in a spelling bee is a delightful way for a child to learn to spell. Spelling bees teach many skills besides the correct spelling of words.
Find Fun Math Online Games for Kids
Online educational games for kids will help children get the practice they need from interactive games with other kids, online games and sites with free math worksheets.
Helping Kids Study for Spelling Tests
Weekly spelling tests are a great way to determine a child's retention with certain study methods. When one form doesn't work, there are always others.
Make a Seasonal Journal with Kids
Try this observation activity with young children to teach them the changes in the seasons. Homeschoolers can create phenology journals.
Teaching Italian American Heritage to Children
October is Italian American Heritage Month and the perfect time to teach children about their ancestors and the accomplishments of Italians and Italian Americans.
Playing With Pumpkins
Pumpkins are readily available during the fall season and are a wonderful way to add some fun learning into a child's day.
Using the Phonetic Alphabet
Pilots, air traffic controllers, and emergency personnel use a verification tool when transmitting important call numbers and messages. It is the phonetic alphabet.
Improve Children's Writing Skills
Writing is an activity that improves with practice. Finding ways to engage children in writing experiences at home can be challenging for parents.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Activities
Connecting this classic children's story to nutrition, weather and cooking activities provides great instructional opportunities for parents and teachers.
Helping Families Understand 9/11
Activities and conversation-starters designed to mark the events of September 11 in ways that are age-appropriate and reassuring for children and pre-teens.
IslamKids Creates Islamic Education Online
Muslim families can now welcome a digital family into their homes as part and parcel of their Islamic education for their children.
Apple Activities for Preschoolers
Preschool children will enjoy these educational apple activities and games in the classroom or at home.
Teaching Kids Local Geography
Arts and crafts is a great method to teach children about where they live.
Words Games for a Group of Kids
Whether traveling by car or bus - or even on foot - these word games will keep kids' minds engaged.
Educational Developmental Preschool Activities
Preschoolers are exploring a world of colors, shapes and sizes. Kids will discover the joy of learning with these educational and entertaining collage projects.
How to Work Crossword Puzzles
Some of the earliest puzzles children learn to solve are riddles. As they progress in word power, give them an opportunity to solve crosswords.
Unleash Creativity in Your Kids
Creativity can't be packaged or marketed like a foreign language. Try some fun ideas to unleash creativity at home with some simple, yet inspirational activities.
Night Vision Activities
Children can learn how human and animal eyes work at nigth with different activities that they can try when it's dark.
Preschool Activities for the Five Senses
There are many engaging ways for a preschooler to learn about the five senses. Planning crafts and games will help make teaching about the five senses fun and exciting.
Online Math Games for Kids
Interactive, multimedia websites engage children and make learning math fun.
Preschoolers Sensory Play for Young Children
Many toys and games are available in stores that teach many basic educational skills. The same skills can be taught creatively with household objects.
Joining the School Band
It is Important to consider the effort required in making a commitment to play in the school band.
Starry Night Art Activity
Engage a child's imagination with Van Gogh's Starry Night and a simple activity.
How Honeybees Find Flowers
Young children can learn how honeybees locate flowers with this craft and game.
Preparing Children to Go Back to School
Parents do not need to let their children lose much learning over the summer with some simple tips to help prevent the summer slide and be prepared to go back to school.
Teaching Young Children About Fractions
Children need as much hands on activities as possible when learning the concept of fractions. Here are some easy and fun activities to help teach fractions at home.
Wood Frog Migration Game
This game gives students a sense of the life cycle and challenges faced by migratory wood frogs.
Cookie Scrabble
Play a scrabble-like game using packaged cookies decorated with tube icing as game tiles.
Design a Child Safety Poster
When children gain awareness of safety issues, through a poster designing contest, they are less likely to become involved in dangerous activities.
Teaching Young Children Numbers Zero to Ten
Teaching number recognition to a child is a very important skill to develop. There are many activities to help make learning numbers enjoyable for both parent and child.
Beginning Reading Matching Game for Kids
Teaching beginning reading to a child is always more exciting with a few fun educational games. This age-adaptable phonics matching game is easy to make and play at home.
Change Reading Behaviors in Children
When parents commit time to teaching children independent skills that support reading behaviors, children have tools to return to school with that no school can provide.
Kids Birthday Parties With a Purpose
Hosting birthday parties with a purpose teaches kids about local and global causes and that they are never too young to make a difference to those in need.
Plaster Casts of Animal Tracks
Turn animal track into a lasting memory by making a simple plaster cast.
Teaching Math Patterns to Young Children
Building math skills can be easy and fun when teaching about patterns. Here are fun activities for children to develop and strengthen patterning skills.
How to Spell Using Vowel Consonant Clusters – AI
Get the child to understand alphabet cluster patterns in spelling, and he has an important tool that will greatly improve his spelling abilities.
Teach Spelling with Vowel A+Consonant Clusters
Learning spelling is much easier if the child can recognize alphabet clusters, especially vowel-consonant clusters that repeat frequently and make similar sounds.
Teach Spelling with Vowel-Consonant Clusters – A
After basic vowel sounds, teach a child to recognize vowel-consonant cluster patterns. Begin with sound clusters that use the vowel "a", as in the "VCe pattern".
Teach Spelling Using Vowel-Consonant Patterns
Once your child is familiar with the basic vowel sounds, tackle more complex spelling by teaching him or her to identify vowel consonant clusters that occur regularly.
Investigate Ant Behavior With Children
Set out crumbs of different types of food to discover whether ants are attracted to salty, sweet, natural, or processed food. Watch the ants to see how they find food.