Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

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

Making food sculptures boosts creativity, and just might help your picky eater branch out!

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

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

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

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.

Want to make sure you raise a money-savvy kid? Start him out right with this activity that hides valuable math skills within a fun grocery store game.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.

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!

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.

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

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

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

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.

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