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Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Teach your third grader about the concepts money and purchasing with this "Mock Card Shop" activity.

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!

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child some helpful strategies with this spin off of the traditional "Go Fish" 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!

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

Science fair project idea which teaches you how to make butter by separating cream into butter and buttermilk.

This science fair project idea teaches how the gases and pollution in the air affect the earth's atmosphere temperature.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

This cool science fair project teaches kids about temperature, density and buoyancy using balloons that float with normal air. No helium required!

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

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Check out this simple version of a pairs game that's played all over the world. It's a great way to practice estimating and predicting mathematical outcomes.

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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 cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

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!

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

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

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.

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

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

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

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