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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!

This uniquely cute Easter bunny craft will give your child practice tracing their handprint while repurposing a paper plate as the base for their bunny.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

This science fair project idea investigates how the shape of an object affects drag.

Help your child sleep easy with this gorgeous paper plate dream catcher.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Everyone loves homemade cookies, but have you ever thought about making the cookie cutters at home? Here's some instructions for making homemade cookie cutters.

On the next rainy day spent inside, delight your third grader by showing him how to make his own weatherproof octopus to display for those passing by.

This recycled craft makes a great addition to the dress-up box and is a two-in-one activity and party favor for princess-themed birthday parties.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Help your first grade reader understand verbs by doing them in this boisterous playground relay race.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Calaveras means "skulls" in Spanish, and in Mexico, skulls are brightly decorated to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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.

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

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

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

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

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.

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

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

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.

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

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.