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skill-building activities
Help your child improve in all academic areas with these skill-builders.
- Top 10 Ways to Improve Reading Skills
- 10 Everyday Ways to Keep Your Child Reading While Having Fun
- Tornado in a Bottle
- Friendly Rainbows
- 11 Everyday Ways to Learn Math While Having Fun
- Paper Tower
- 10 Everyday Ways to Explore Science While Having Fun
- Fifteen-Minute Reading Activities
- 10 Backyard Science Activities
- Balloon Fun
- Divided Earth
- Bottled Egg
- Energy from the Sun
- Egg Drop
- Volcano Experiment
- Flashlight Fun
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold by Jan Brett
- Secret Message
- Bird-Watching
- Cloud Watching
- Rainbow Cubes
- The Greenhouse Effect Experiments
- When I Grow Up
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- I Love You Because…
- The Three Little Pigs retold by James Marshall
- Teaching Kids About Roman Numerals
- Benefits of Reading as a Teen
- It Felt Like...
- How to Get Your Kids to Love Math
- Flower Tinting
- Muddied Waters
- Skill Building Through Play
- Making Captions
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Linguistic Gift-Boosting Activities
- Planting the Seeds of Peace
- Crystal Rock Garden
- Fun with Weights
- Brainstorming Activity
- Top Ways to Get Your Kids to Read
- City Guide
- Every Number Counts
- Fill in the Blanks
- Read My Lips
- Shopping Math
- Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- Who Loves You?
- Evaporation Experiment
- Go West, Young Kids
- Great Entertaining
- Math Codes
- Sum of Their Parts
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
- Logical-Mathematical Gift-Boosting Activities
- Reading Olympics
- Do-It-Yourself "Ologies"
- The Gravity of the Situation
Top 10 Sweet 16 Birthday Gifts
