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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!

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

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.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

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

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

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

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

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.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

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

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

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

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!

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

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.