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!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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

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

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Here's a fun math game you can use to practice counting, addition or subtraction with your child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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