Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

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.

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.

These pretzel reindeer cookies are a great holiday recipe for kids to make. Rudolph and the whole gang agree!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

Practice addition with your child in a whole new way when you battle to defend your cards in this competitive game. Math has never been so fun!

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

Grab some dice and play this take on tic-tac-toe. Itâs easy to set up and your child will have a blast.

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.