Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

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

Winter is a great time to build a friendly snowman! Turn regular modeling clay into a glittery snowy surprise.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Run, jump, and skip your way to physical fitness as your exercise with dice! It's a perfect party or family game.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Your child can create his very own pine forest covered in snow and learn some forest vocabulary too!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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."

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

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

Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In this activity, your child will discuss problem-solving strategies and practice using these strategies with Tangram puzzles.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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:

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

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Arrange a cluster of glittering pumpkins on your dining table or use them as individual place cards to add a little sparkle to your next fall party.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!