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If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler or kindergartener create his own set of building blocks to create her dream house and buildings.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

The possibilities are endless with this fun Halloween-themed STEM activity! With simple supplies, your child will experiment, adapt, and use their creativity while they build structures using different specifications.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

This fun art activity gets your child to create background and foreground elements, building his art skills and creative development.

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.