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

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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."

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

How goofy can your first grader get? Show her how to use balloons and yarn to craft a collection of silly faces!

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

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"!

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

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

On the next rainy day spent inside, delight your third grader by showing him how to make his own weatherproof octopus to display for those passing by.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Show your first grader how to create her own octopus out of yarn. This simple, yet fun, project yields an adorable play or cuddle partner.