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In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Get back into school with this exciting architecture exploration! In this craft activity your child will research, draw, and build his own school.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

How powerful is the reaction between baking soda and vinegar? Find out here!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Science fair project that examines how temperature affects density and how density in turn affects the behavior of helium gas.