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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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 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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.