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

Make your own chalkboard to liven up a playroom, and encourage your child to practice writing and math!

Patterns are everywhere. This activity allows your child to practice inventing their own patterns while creating a portrait of a pet.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

Recycle an old soda bottle into a beautiful, functional soap dish! In this project your child will practice saving the environment in a proactive way.

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

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

This adorable activity is a great way to share the Gingerbread Man story with your kid while she practices assemblage.

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

The chalkboard surface on this desk globe tempts kids to grab their chalk and start mapping out their next adventures.

In this easy and fun animal craft, make a cute pig nose using recycled egg cartons!

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Add a flourish of flowers to your dining table with simple and creative sponge art!

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Use your handprints to create a Halloween spider in this fun arts-and-crafts activity!

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Help your child explore this ancient art technique with the help of some tinfoil, black paint and the end of a paintbrush!

This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

Make sure your child is prepared for Halloween by having him create a stamp-printing that says: "Trick or treat? Smell my feet!"

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."