Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

This cultural craft makes a pretty decoration and teaches kids about other cultures.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Construct cute baby chicks with nothing but fuzzy pom-poms and an assortment of other craft supplies.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

Explore griffins, dragons, and other medieval mythical beasts through sculpture by making your own bas relief beast out of modeling clay.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

Help your child use an old water bottle and a few other household materials to make her own eco-friendly pal!

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

Offer your child an interactive approach to understanding the different family roles and the ways in which she has impacted other members of the family.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

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

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).