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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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!

Kids can make a cute fluffy bunny for Easter using a tin can and cotton balls in this creative first grade arts and crafts activity.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your first-grader or second-grader using crayons and black paint to create a beautiful wax-resist nightscape.