Who says a party can't be productive? Next time your home is host to a hoard of giggling children, put those creative fingers to use with a party scrapbook!

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Practice subtraction with your second grader in this fun dice game. Math concepts have never been more fun!

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

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

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!