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!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

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

Combine fun sensory play with early number awareness in a squishy sun catcher project. It's a fun way for your kid to learn about numbers.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

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

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

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

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

Here's how you and your child can work together to craft your own story problems from scratch.

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

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

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

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

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

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

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.

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.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.