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Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

You've heard the expression "burn rubber" but do you know how heat affects rubber? Examine the impact of temperature on rubber in this fun science experiment.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Race to double numbers in this competitive card game. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Enjoy this kid-friendly recipe for Irish soda bread, just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Have your child construct his own Christmas tree from construction paper while cutting, overlapping and measuring to create an adorable modern design.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

Simplify fractions with your child in this fast-paced math card game.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!