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Teach your child about jesters as she makes her very own jester hat.

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

This fun outdoor game will help your child develop her addition and subtraction skills and teach her basic arithmetic while keeping her active.

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

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!

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.

Here are some ideas for marshmallow math games you can play with your child to help teach him important concepts like estimation, area, and measurement.

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!

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

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.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

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.

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

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

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.