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!

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

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!

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

How do icicles form and what do they look like? Do this free science fair project and watch the formation of icicles occur right before your eyes.

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

Create equations in this strategic math card game. Your second or third grader can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a new way!

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

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

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

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

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

In this science fair project, we'll use a liquid crystal thermometer to find out whether exercising makes a difference in people's temperature.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This pyramid card game is a fun way to help your child learn addition and subtraction. Best of all, itâs quick to set up and easy to play.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

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.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

Help your child practice multiplication tables with this mental and physical multitasking game that uses a hula hoop to get into the swing of things.

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

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

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

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!