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Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

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

This fun game helps children learn to estimate the most basic unit of time--a minute--without a clock.

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

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.

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

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