This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

This Veterans Day, teach your kid about Remembrance Day and create a wreath of red poppies to honor the brave soldiers who died serving their countries.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

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.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

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:

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Not sure what to do with all of those leftover boxes from holiday gifts? Tap into your crafty side by creating an adorable snow person with your child. This activity is sure to bring smiles to those who pass your yard or come into your home all season lon

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

Jump into the story of Cinderella by making a pumpkin coach of your own!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

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?