Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Invite your first grader to play with his food! He will improve his fine motor skills as he creates zany edible art!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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!

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

With help, your fifth grader can sew her own version of this pin cushion currently available at many craft fairs.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

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"!

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

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

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

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.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Let your first grader get inspired by the fiery fall colors outside his window by creating a beautiful handprint tree!

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!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

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

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

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.

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

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

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!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.