Why not enlist your child's help in counteracting the holiday hustle-bustle with this family-affirming activity? Every time someone walks under your child's homemade mistletoe, he or she will express kindness or appreciation to someone.

Use the gift giving season as a teaching mechanism for your child, giving her a no-pressure lesson in planning a holiday budget. By the time she has her first job and a bank account, she will be a professional money managing whiz!

Practice finding the mean, or average, of different data sets in this math card game. It's a great way to work on division and improve your fifth grader's understanding of statistics. All you need is a deck of cards, a score sheet, and a pencil, and you'll be ready to play!

"That's not fair!" is a phrase parents often hear. This game takes a mathematical approach to that statement. Introduce probability to your third grader with this fun card game! Use a deck of cards to play this game of chance, then evaluate the odds of winning.

Get out a deck of cards and practice finding sums of 11 in this one-player math game! You'll lay out nine cards, then try to find sets of cards that add up to 11. This is excellent practice for any first grader working on their addition facts.

Practice finding sums of 10 in this one-player card game. Try working together with your first grader and talk through the best moves. You'll be working on strategy and addition facts at the same time as you place and remove cards from your game board.

Memorizing addition facts is an important step in a first grader's learning. Teach your child this fun card game in order to squeeze in a little extra addition practice. All you need is a deck of cards, and you are ready to get started!

In this math game, the lucky number is 13! All you need is a deck of playing cards to begin practicing your addition facts in this fun activity. Use cards to create a game board, which you will scan looking for sums of 13.

To commemorate the Year of the Tiger, you can help your child make a festive, tiger-inspired wall calendar! Your child will strengthen her motor skills as she gets a helpful reminder of when holidays and special dates like birthdays occur.

Here's how to make fun crowns to celebrate Twelfth Night, or to crown the Kings and Queens of Christmas!