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

When your child is crossing streets in the dark, visibility is key. Once he's picked out a costume, make fun and festive neon accents to add to his outfit.

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

In this arts and crafts activity, you can make fun bracelets using just a handful of buttons and some elastic cord. And it's a counting game, too!

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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!

Try your hand at some Seuss-like tongue twisters! Boost those vocabulary skills with this fun game for the whole family.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

Your child might have noticed how bubbles quickly lose their colors and pop. Check out this creative way to make those bubbles last longer.

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

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

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

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.