With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

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

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

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:

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

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

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

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

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

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

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

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

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

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

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

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

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!