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.

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

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

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

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

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.

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

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

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.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

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

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

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

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

Help cement the concept of place value with this simple activity that involves creating a set of dials made from Styrofoam cups.

Help your child get comfortable with the concept of estimation, which will come in handy during everything from standardized tests to future shopping trips!

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

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

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.

Does your child need counting help? Here's a simple game that kids can do at home to help them practice counting to two-digit numbers.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

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.

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

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.