Make a shiny decorative Menorah using an egg carton and light bulbs.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

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:

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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!

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

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

It's easy to be a master Italian chef with this target practice game played with a pizza board constructed out of felt and Velcro bean bag "toppings."

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

Teach your child measurement skills and some Mardi Gras history as you make this delectably delicious traditional treat known as King Cake.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days