With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

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

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

This DIY menorah will make a beautiful addition to your Hanukkah celebrations. Make a DIY menorah with your child this winter.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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

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.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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:

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Introduce your little one to the joys of gardening with this adorable do-it-yourself planter made from clothespins.

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!

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?