Educational Classroom Games

Starting with its amusing name -- Dumb Crambo -- this old game of rhyme and mime,or silent charades, offers lots of laughs.

Girls express self-confidence in this group game, which paves the way for future kindnesses.

It takes a secret ingredient -- and a little old-fashioned chemistry -- to amaze your friends with this neat ice-cube trick.

Use this magic trick to amaze your audience with the divining power of your fingertips.

In this simple but convincing magic trick, time really is money.

Wheaties or no Wheaties, every kid can display superhuman strength with this simple trick.

Put your heads together and see if your family can solve this playground puzzler.

Amaze an audience with this April Fools' ESP trick.

Use this simple estimation technique to figure out how tall the trees around you really are.

The perks of possessing a pair of peepers. Try this fun experiment to help your child discover firsthand how our eyes make such a great pair.

Because our eyes are in two slightly different locations, they each perceive things a bit differently. Each one relays a separate image to our brain, which combines the two pictures into one, giving us a truer view of the world around us.

Show your child how to break a string with her bare hands.