Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

Everyone has a dream. The hard part is striving to make those dreams come true. Encourage your child to dream big with this easy craft project.

There are a lot of ways to make decorative wreaths. This wreath uses cloth and egg carton flowers!

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Make the world's simplest tutu. Don't worry if you aren't good with a needle--putting this no-sew tutu together is as easy as tying your shoe!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Help you child learn the colors of the rainbow and paint them in order by making a beautiful rainbow pot.

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Patterns are everywhere. This activity allows your child to practice inventing their own patterns while creating a portrait of a pet.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how: