Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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.

Fire up the grill, break out the raffia and get crafty with flowers--it's time to learn how to throw your own luau!