Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your first grader create special 3D paper Christmas trees that he can use to decorate the home or give to friends.

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

If your first grader loves to play with her food, turn the messy habit into a clever arts and craft project.

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This kids' activity is fun to perform and impressive to watch. Plus, it's a great example of Newton's First Law of Motion at work.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

You don't need a garden to enjoy flowers. This first grade activity let's you make a lovely bouquet for Valentine's Day

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

Here is a quick experiment you can conduct at the playground to introduce or reinforce the concept of Newton's First Law, The Law of Inertia.

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Help your child celebrate your family's Thanksgiving cook with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a "handy" painted apron!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.