Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

These quick and easy pumpkin quesadillas are as delicious as they are nutritious. Celebrate Fall and the wonder squash that is the pumpkin!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.