Try this fun math card game and practice place value with your second grader! Decide which number is bigger in order to earn points!

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

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!

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.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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

Based on the popular "I Spy" game, this activity lets your kid practice important skills like number identification and place value.

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

The kitchen can be a favorite place for kids. And cooking helps them develop valuable skills-- from eye-hand coordination, to reading, to math

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

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.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Arrange a cluster of glittering pumpkins on your dining table or use them as individual place cards to add a little sparkle to your next fall party.

Your child can make a sweet and savory spinach strawberry salad; two ingredients that come together for a light and fresh summer dish!

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

This recycled craft makes a great addition to the dress-up box and is a two-in-one activity and party favor for princess-themed birthday parties.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.