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

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

This fun outdoor game will help your child develop her addition and subtraction skills and teach her basic arithmetic while keeping her active.

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

Here are some ideas for marshmallow math games you can play with your child to help teach him important concepts like estimation, area, and measurement.

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

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

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.

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

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

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

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

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.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

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!