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Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

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!

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

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

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Halloween wouldn't be complete without a creepy paper hand with spider and eyeball rings to help decorate a haunted house!

Create your very own adorable reindeer to keep you company throughout the holiday season.

Did you know that witches are a very popular Halloween costume? This October the 31st, your child will learn how to create their very own decorative witch hat.

Your child can easily create a ghoulishy adorable bat treat keeper. Crafting this funny fella is a great way to introduce the basic components of sculpture.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

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

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

In this activity, your child will discuss how to stand up for others, and they'll use pipe cleaners to design a symbol that reminds them to stand up for others.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

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

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Great for bath time, or anytime your child is feeling creative, these bright bathtub paints are a fun and low-mess way to spice up art time.