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Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

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

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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.