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

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!

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.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

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

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

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

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

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

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

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

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.

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.

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.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

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

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.