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Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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

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

Your child can brush up on her math skills by charting the length of time that each candle on the menorah takes to burn.

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.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Invite your second grader to help you measure and mix these fresh, cool concoctions!

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

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.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this first grade math card game.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Your child will need to combine his sporty hand-eye coordination skills with his math skills to become the bullseye king.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.