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.

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

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.

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.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

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!