This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

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 a paper plate puppet that'll help your child imagine what it's like to be in a performance of the dragon dance.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

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

Watch the pop of complementary colors while creating a fun and beautiful collage you can create from magazine clippings.

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

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Why would you pay for pricey dolls at the store when your second grader can create and play with her own personalized set?

Celebrate the gooey goodness of peanut butter with a yummy treat your young chef can whip together himself.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

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

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.