Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Little kids love this messy but fun Easter party game: bob for chocolate Easter eggs in a giant blob of whipped cream. The first one to find all her eggs wins!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Ringing a quiet bell is also a great way to support focus and bring kids into the present moment so they can be aware of what they are experiencing inside.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year by creating mosaic shamrock art with your child.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Add a flourish of flowers to your dining table with simple and creative sponge art!

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

Having some dancing skeletons hanging around the house is great way to prepare for All Hallows' Eve. This is a great activity for honing fine motor skills.

Famous statues of gargoyles protect churches and houses all over Europe, and now your kid can have one of his own, complete with squishy tongue and bouncy arms!

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

Your child can easily create a ghoulishy adorable bat treat keeper. Crafting this funny fella is a great way to introduce the basic components of sculpture.

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

Your child can create a toy soap sure to provide bath time fun for himself or, when given as a gift, a friend!

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.