Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

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

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

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!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

What lives in the darkest, deepest waters of the ocean? Let your child's imagination go vividly wild while creating brilliant fish using their fingerprints!

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Camouflage is one of the most important animal adaptations in the African savanna biome. Kids create their own camouflage with this fun science fair project.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

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.

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.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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?