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Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

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

This countdown to Christmas craft is fun for kids who are excited for the holiday. Countdown to Christmas with this fun holiday activity.

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

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

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!

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

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!

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

With this fun math activity, your second grader will learn to estimate jellybeans, pennies, grapes, or anything else you can put in a jar!

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

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

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.