In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

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

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!

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Help your first grader make these patriotic hanging streamer decorations this 4th of July!

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

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don't!

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Make a campfire crown, complete with roasted marshmallows!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.