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

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

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

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

Does your second grader want to learn a magic trick? Here is a simple trick using only 3 dice and a little bit of addition and subtraction.

These sparkling earrings look fancy but they're super simple to make using inexpensive craft items.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Dig up some dinos while promoting curiosity and sensory skills in this hands-on activity that will have your child searching for prehistoric treasure!

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Toss playing cards into boxes while you practice addition and multiplication with decimals in this fun, fifth grade math game.

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

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!

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

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

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

This science fair project idea determines what factors influence an individual's reaction time using a web-based timed reaction test.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

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

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

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Thanksgiving is a time to be with loved ones. It's also a time to chow down! Need help in the kitchen? There's no better helper than an avid fourth grader.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Instead of drilling facts, grab sidewalk chalk and head outside for a rousing game of this Math Run game. Play the Math Run game with your child.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

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!