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Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

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!

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

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.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

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.

This science fair project idea determines effective strategies to help students stay awake and attentive.

This science fair project idea examines the actual cost of three household light bulbs by testing energy consumption.

Use a recycling project to hone your childâs sewing skills and clean up her art supplies when she turns the leg of an old pair of jeans into a storage basket.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Have your kid practice completing number patterns and then create her own patterns on the wings of a butterfly with this delightfully simple paper project.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Explore joule heating and resistance vs. temperature with this cool electricity science fair project that gets kids melting ice cubes with resistors.

Check out this game that provides an enjoyable way of demonstrating how recorded results can be expressed in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same 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.

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Thermometers are how we measure temperature, and we've all heard the terms "centigrade" and "Fahrenheit" tossed around, but what do they really mean?