Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Invite your kid to create her own hanging dove images--a symbol of peace and unity--in honor of Black History Month.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

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!

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

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

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

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!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

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

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.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.