Dated decoration: Create a custom-made calendar
Help your first-grader discover the meaning (and math) of December.
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Passion for fashion: Create homemade lapel pins
Your second- or third-grader can discover wearable art with this chic activity.
Last-minute teacher gifts
Still looking for a great gift for your child's teacher? Here are five quick and simple ideas for gifts teachers will love.
Preserving knowledge
Third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders explore the science of canning by making marmalade.
Smart cookies
Teach preschoolers or kindergartners about the origin of spices by baking fragrant goodies.
What a Halloween costume says about your child
Princess or assassin? Gory zombie or sexualized pop star? You may cringe at your child's Halloween costume, but here's why the most wince-worthy outfits make developmental sense.
Saying Thanks to Your Child's Teacher
Parents share a wealth of ideas for teacher gifts, from gift cards to spa days to lunches honoring the whole school staff.
The gift economy
Our Holiday Toy Survey elicited some wondrous insights about the state of holiday cheer and chagrin in America today.
Gifts for mini multimedia moguls
Whether or not words like "nano" and "flip" are already part of your kids' vocabulary, you can boost their tech savvy (and talents) with one of these multimedia gifts. Instead of just letting them zone out to TV or tunes, encourage your children to get...
Little school of Halloween horrors
Oh yes, school is getting more terrifying by the day. Seven reasons for modern parents to be afraid, very afraid.
