Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

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

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

From Canada's flag, to the Toronto Maple Leafs, to classic maple syrup cookies, the maple tree is very much a part of Canadian heritage.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Kids will build a turtle habitat in order to observe the climate preferences of this cold-blooded reptile.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler or kindergartener that will give them a leg up in learning numbers.

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

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.

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.

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.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

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.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

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.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

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

Kids will learn how to make a thermometer to to explore liquid density in this great science fair project. Which liquids are affected by temperature the most?