Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

Practice multiplication facts by playing baseball in this fun, third grade math board game.

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

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

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

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

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

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

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!

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Calling all power-shoppers! This game is a fun way for kids to learn life skills, and flex their math muscles at the same time.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

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

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

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

This little chick is so cute that your child will want to make a whole flock to call her own.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

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.

Work on division with remainders in this fun fourth grade math board game.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.