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

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

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

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

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.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Put your junk mail to good use! Armed with a stack ads and a few simple art supplies, your preschooler can make a cool poster for his room.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

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!

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

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.

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.