First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Homemade Christmas crackers add some bang to your holiday celebration. Make a set of homemade Christmas crackers with your child this holiday season.

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Celebrate all your wonderful tongue taste buds with a giant paper tongue project -- you'll even get to decorate it with actual pieces of candy!

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

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

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

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

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Bring the rich history of Thanksgiving to life with a quirky and sweet paper plate craft.

Your first grader will love showcasing his favorite pieces of art with his very own personalized magnets created from old bottle caps!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Have your child assemble a tiny bunny that she can carry with her and pull out whenever she needs a friend.