Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Make beautiful print block art with your kids using recycled materials.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Turn the marks on the wall into art! Create fingerpaint flamingos, herons and ostriches with this fun craft for kids.

Kids learn about surrealism as they cut out items from magazines and combine them to create their own piece of surrealistic juxtaposition.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Here's a fun Fourth of July craft that will delight kids of many ages.

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

This entertaining magic trick will 'trick' kids into using math skill to impress their friends!

Kids will have a hoot constructing this cute owl craft from a recycled toilet paper roll.

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

This is a great activity for when the kids get a little stir crazy. It works indoors or out.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!

Here are four chocolate bark ideas to prepare with your kids that everyone will love.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

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

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Need another reason to celebrate Thanksgiving? Now kids can create a sunny, textured sunflower card to remember the day!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!